High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pace J. McConkie is a civil rights lawyer and a professor at Morgan State University. He is a native of Utah.Pace has been a recipient of the NAACP Attorney of the Year award. He is the director of the Center for Civil Rights in Education, which is located at Morgan State University. Pace has served as assistant attorney general of Maryland and as a counsel for the NAACP. As assistant attorney general, McConkie opposed the starting of an MBA program at Towson University that would compete against Morgan State University.