Attorney John Chiles, a distinguished lawyer and educator, hails from a family renowned for their contributions in medicine, law, and education. Among his notable ancestors is his great-great-uncle, Attorney James Alexander Chiles, a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Law in 1889 and the first African American lawyer to argue before the United States Supreme Court in the case of Chiles vs. Chesapeake & Potomac Railroad in 1910.

John Chiles completed his high school education at John Marshall High School in Richmond, Virginia, before earning a B.A. in Public Administration from Norfolk State University in 1984. Before pursuing a legal career, he gained valuable management experience working with People Express and Continental Airlines.

He later moved to Houston, Texas, where he attended Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law, earning his law degree in 1991. Mr. Chiles is licensed to practice law in Texas, including the Federal District, Appeals, and the Texas Supreme Court.

In addition to his legal practice, Attorney Chiles is an adjunct professor of African American and Africana Studies at the University of Houston. He also teaches in Ghana, West Africa, during the summer. His expertise has led him to lecture in Egypt, Amsterdam, Paris, the Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, and Ghana. He serves as General Counsel for several film production companies in Los Angeles and Atlanta and has successfully negotiated numerous production and distribution deals in the film and music industries, both domestically and internationally.