Clyde F. DeWitt

Clyde Frank DeWitt III was a nationally recognized attorney who devoted more than four decades to the defense of free speech in courtrooms across the country. Born in Chicago on September 27, 1948, he moved to the Kansas City area in 1970 and pursued his legal and graduate studies at the University of Houston.

He began his career with seven years of service as an assistant district attorney in Houston. Over the following four decades, his practice took him from Houston to Los Angeles and, finally, to Las Vegas, where he was admitted to the State Bar of Nevada in 2006. Throughout that career he became known as an awarded champion of First Amendment rights, litigating free-speech matters in courtrooms from coast to coast.

Clyde F. DeWitt died on March 23, 2024, at the age of 75. He is remembered for his dedication to the cause of free expression and for the national reputation he built over a lifetime of advocacy.