Roland Nicholson Jr.
Member of The Fortune Society Board of Directors (on leave)

Roland Nicholson, Jr. was elected Chairman of the Fortune Society in 1997. He is also a consultant and arbitrator specializing in election law. He earned a BA from Morgan State University in 1970 and a JD from the Hofstra University School of Law in 1974. He was selected to be a Reginald Heber Smith Law Fellow in 1974. Upon completion of his fellowship and active duty service as an Army officer Nicholson became a staff member of the New York State Legislature. In 1982 he was the co-author of a study which highlighted the fact that it was a much greater burden on taxpayers to execute an individual convicted of a capital crime than it was to keep that individual incarcerated for the remainder of his or her life.  He is a member of the Electoral Reform Society (United Kingdom) and has been designated as an arbitrator by the Mayor of Xi’an (PRC).