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Bonnie G. Schneider (1988): [52] First female judge in Cecil County, Maryland; Donine Carrington (1995): [48] First African American female to serve on the Charles County Circuit Court (2017) [Charles County, Maryland] Betty Bright Nelson (c. 1950s): [53] First woman to practice law in Dorchester County, Maryland
Melony G. Griffith, Larry Hogan and Adrienne A. Jones enacting Maryland law in April 2022. The Annotated Code of Maryland, published by The Michie Company, is the official codification of the statutory laws of Maryland. It is organized into 36 named articles. The previous code, organized into numbered articles, has been repealed. [1]
Black women of this period continued to break barriers. Historian Annette Gordon-Reed became the first Black woman editor of the Harvard Law Review in 1982. [14] In 2021, there were 28 Black women law school deans in the United States, an all time high. [15] In 2018, 19 Black women were elected to the Harris County courts in Houston. [16]
She was admitted to the Maryland bar in 1996 and to the federal bar in 1997. [6] Rawlings-Blake is an alumna of the Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound Center [citation needed] and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, Epsilon Omega chapter. [6] She is a former at-large member of the Alliance of Black Women Attorneys. [7]
Juanita Elizabeth Jackson Mitchell (January 2, 1913 – July 7, 1992) was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and was the first African-American woman to practice law in Maryland. She was married to Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., mother of two Maryland State Senators, and grandmother of one.
First African-American woman licensed to practice law in Illinois, and the third in the United States Charlotte E. Ray (1850–1911) [14] First Black American female lawyer in the United States Scovel Richardson (1912–1982) [15] Party to a housing desegregation case anticipating Shelley v. Kraemer; also a judge in federal courts from 1957
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Aisha Nazapa Braveboy [1] (born July 29, 1974) is an American politician and attorney who has served as the state's attorney of Prince George's County, Maryland since 2018. . She was previously a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing the 25th district from 2007 to 2