Obituaries

Mr. Alexander was a guest lecturer at the Georgetown University and Howard University law schools and the University of Maryland African-American studies program. He conducted equal-employment opportunity training sessions for District employees and for staff members of the District's Office of the Attorney General.

Before he joined the Commission on Human Rights, Mr. Alexander was a legal adviser at the District's old Office of Personnel from 1984 to 1987. Before that, he was a staff attorney for the Federal Trade Commission, where he conducted systematic investigations and hearings on unfair or deceptive trade practices.

He was a leader in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community locally and the mid-Atlantic region, and served on the boards of Scarlet's Foundation, the Center for GLBT in Metro DC, and Among Friends, a nonprofit crisis transition program.

He was born in Montclair, N.J., and moved to Washington. He graduated from Howard University and received a law degree from Rutgers University in 1976.

He was a member of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary, where he co-chaired the 2007 annual conference. He was president of the Maryland, District of Columbia Association of Administrative Adjudicators.

His partner, Darell Osher, died in 1992.

No immediate family members survive him.

-- Patricia Sullivan

J. Clifford SantleyCotton Lobbyist

J. Clifford Santley, 89, former chief economist and director of the International Cotton Advisory Committee, died of complications of a stroke Nov. 21 at his Falls Church home.

Mr. Santley worked at the organization for 25 years, traveling to almost 100 cotton-producing and cotton-consuming countries. He retired in 1986, then worked for several more years as a real estate agent for Mary Price-Howell Properties in Fairfax County.