James W. Parkinson (born 1949) is a lawyer and an activist for reparations to be paid to Americans who were slave laborers for private Japanese companies during World War II.
Parkinson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1973.
Parkinson is also a 1976 graduate of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University and is admitted to practice law in California.[1]
Parkinson authored with Lee Benson Soldier Slaves: Abandoned by the White House, Courts and Congress and more recently was the producer of the film The Inheritance of War also about the Americans held prisoner of war by Japan and their quest for reparaitions.
From 2003-2004 Parkinson was the chairman of the Republican Trial Lawyers Caucus.
Parkinson was also involved in the organization "Republicans for Obama".[2]