Glenn M. Simmington

Bar / Professional Activity

• National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
• Eastern District of Michigan Criminal Justice Attorneys (CJA) Panel, Member
• Michigan Public Defense Task Force
• State Bar of Michigan
• Genesee County Bar Association
• Admitted to practice before Supreme Court of the United States, 2000 Hearing Panelist, Michigan State Bar Attorney Discipline Board, 2004 to present Member, Michigan Public Defense Task Force, 2003 to present Member, Flint Criminal Justice Act (CJA) Panel Attorney Program, 2009   
• Recipient of the Genesee County Bar Association's Jerome F. O' Rourke Advocacy Award, given annually in recognition of a GCBA member who has demonstrated the highest level of professional excellence in advocacy, and who exemplifies the other principles of the American Inns of Court: Professionalism, Ethics and Civility, 2015

Verdicts / Settlements (Case Results)

• Representing Melissa Mays in the landmark "Flint Water Case," (captioned, in the Eastern District of Michigan Federal Court as "Concerned Pastors for Social Action, et al., v. Nick A. Khoury, et al.”), Glenn teamed with the Natural Resources Defense Council and the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan to help achieve a settlement that requires the State of Michigan to allocate $87,000,000 that will, once the settlement is fully implemented, be expended in order to eliminate further water-borne lead poisoning of City of Flint residents. In addition, the settlement will provide Flint residents with the critical health and medical services they need to mitigate the damage inflicted upon them by their lengthy, and unnecessary, exposure to lead-laced drinking water. Filed under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, the comprehensive, 92-page settlement achieved by Ms. Mays and the "Flint Water Team" will result in the complete removal and replacement of all of the city’s lead and galvanized steel residential service lines. Those lines have been poisoning many thousands of Flint residents for well over a year – since April of 2014, when the city’s state-appointed "emergency manager" decided, in an effort to save money, to switch Flint’s public water source, from properly-treated Detroit water to corrosive and insufficiently-treated Flint River water. Through this important lawsuit, the NRDC, the ACLU of Michigan, and Mr. Simmington were also able to secure for Flint’s citizens, at no cost to either the City or them, properly functioning water filters and safe bottled water, all while the removal and replacement of the lead-leaching lines is being completed, 2018

Pro bono / Community Service

• Awarded "pro bono defender of civil liberties" by Genesee County Bar Association, 2008

Honors

• Awarded for representing eleven (11) of approximately ninety (90) criminal defendants wrongfully accused of frequenting a drug house, following a multi-force police raid at Club What's Next, a public tavern in Flint, MI.  During the raid, all were subjected to illegal strip- and/or body cavity-searches, and all had their cases dismissed on motion, Civil Libertarian of the Year, Greater Flint Branch, ACLU of Michigan, 2006
• Given annually in recognition of a GCBA member who has demonstrated the highest level of professional excellence in advocacy, and who exemplifies the other principles of the American Inns of Court: Professionalism, Ethics and Civility, Jerome F. O'Roarke Advocacy Award, Genesee County (MI) Bar Association, 2015

Educational Background

• University of Michigan with honors in 1978

• Appellate Practice Section - State Bar Of Michigan
• Criminal Defense Attorneys Of Michigan
• Criminal Law Section - State Bar Of Michigan
• National Association Of Criminal Defense Lawyers