Chris McNair

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Jewell C. "Chris" McNair (born 1926) is a photographer, a former Jefferson County Commissioner, a former state legislator, and the father of Denise McNair, one of four girls who died in the 1963 bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church.

McNair owns Chris McNair Studios, a frame shop and photography studio and gallery on 6th Avenue South.

On April 21, 2006 McNair was convicted on 11 counts of bribery and conspiracy involving contractors for Jefferson County's sewer project, which McNair was overseeing. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery in a second charge which was set to go to trial in February 2007.

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