He was an assistant district attorney in Tuscaloosa County until 1977 when he took seat as a state circuit judge.

He stepped down from the bench in 1985 to run for Congress to succeed Richard Shelby, who ran for the United States Senate.

After leaving Congress, Harris was appointed United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama under the new Clinton administration in 1993.

Harris died of lung cancer on October 2, 1994, in Birmingham, Alabama.

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