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The next year, 1884, there was a meeting in Atlanta to form the Georgia Bar Association. The initial members of the Georgia Bar Association were all the Georgia members of the ABA. They chose as the first state bar president L. N. Whittle, who was commander of the Macon Militia during the Civil War.
A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. [1] The word bar is derived from the old English/European custom of using a physical railing (bar) to separate the area in which court or legal profession business is done from the viewing area for the general public or students of the law.
John "Jack" H. Ruffin Jr.: [25] [26] First African American male admitted to the Augusta Bar Association (1961) and to serve as a Superior Court judge in the Augusta Judicial Circuit (1986) [Columbia and Richmond Counties, Georgia] Bill Pledger (c. 1880s): [51] First African American male lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia [DeKalb County and Fulton ...
Adele Grubbs (1969): [64] First female to serve as the Assistant District Attorney for Cobb County, Georgia (1977) Joyette Holmes: [65] [66] First (African American) female to serve as the District Attorney and a Magistrate Judge for Cobb County, Georgia (2019) Cathy Cox (1984): [67] First female lawyer in Bainbridge, Georgia [Decatur County ...
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Johnson received his B.A. degree from Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University) in 1976, is a member of Kappa Alpha Alpha chapter of Omega Psi Phi, Decatur, Georgia, and received his J.D. degree from Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston in 1979; he practiced law in Decatur, Georgia, for more than 25 years.
Ray was born in Macon, Georgia in 1963. [3] He received his Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business in 1985, magna cum laude, his Master of Business Administration from the Terry College of Business in 1986, and his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1990.
The Conviction of Honor is the flagship program of GAAAA. The event is held annually during the GAAAA Christmas party at the State Bar of Georgia.The organization honors those members who have made significant contributions to the community and to the ideals of the organization in a mock trial, where the honorees are "convicted" for their service to the profession and community.