Doug Selby, an Atlanta bond lawyer at Hunton & Williams, was an eyewitness to history last Friday. As the general counsel of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Selby sat on the dais with other church leaders at the Charleston funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the pastor of Emanuel AME Church and a state senator, at which President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy.

Pinckney and eight members of his congregation were shot to death during an evening Bible study two weeks ago by a white shooter, identified by police as Dylann Roof.