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The State Bar of Texas is composed of those persons licensed to practice law in Texas and is an "integrated" or "mandatory" bar. The State Bar Act, adopted by the Legislature in 1939, mandates that all attorneys licensed to practice law in Texas be members of the State Bar. [4] [5] As of 2023, membership in the Texas Bar stood at 113,771. [6]
Bessie Dreibelbis (1962): [175] First female Judge of the Richmond Municipal Court (Contra Costa County, California; 1970s) Ellen James (1970): [175] First female Judge of the Mt. Diablo Judicial District (Contra Costa County, California; 1976) Patricia McKinley (1975): [176] First African American female judge in Contra Costa County ...
Samuel Conti was a Superior court judge in the Contra Costa County from 1968 to 1970, when he was appointed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. [ 6 ] On November 11, 2003, just days before he left office after an unprecedented recall vote, California Governor Gray Davis appointed Barry Goode to serve on ...
Becton was admitted to the State Bar of California on December 11, 1986, and her attorney status is active. She became a judge on November 28, 1995, [4] where she served for 22 years on the Contra Costa County Superior Court.
Carl Metoyer (1953): [133] First African American male to serve as the President of the Alameda County Bar Association (1970) Ming Chin (1967): [134] First Asian American male to serve as the President of the Alameda County Bar Association (c. 1987) Ken M. Kawaichi: [135] [136] First Asian American male judge in Alameda County, California (1980)
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
For example, in Virginia, the Virginia State Bar is the mandatory organization and the Virginia Bar Association is voluntary. There are many bar associations other than state bar associations. Usually these are organized by geography (e.g. county bar associations), area of practice, or affiliation (e.g. ethnic bar associations).
Martinez (Spanish: Martínez) [9] [10] is a city in and the county seat of Contra Costa County, California, United States, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. [11] Located on the southern shore of the Carquinez Strait , the city's population was 37,287 at the 2020 census .