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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]
Ruth Whitehead Whaley (February 2, 1901 – December 23, 1977) was the third African American woman admitted to practice law in New York in 1925 [1] and the first in North Carolina in 1933. [1] [2] She was the first Black woman to graduate from Fordham University School of Law, where she graduated cum laude in 1924. [2]
Harvard Law School did not admit women until 1950, [49] and Notre Dame Law School. [52] Black women faced far greater barriers to entry into law than white women. As of 1940, there were a hundred times as many white women practicing law in the United States as Black women, although the profession remained over 97% white men.
Murray lived in Ghana from 1960 to 1961, serving on the faculty of the Ghana School of Law. [31] She returned to the US and studied at Yale Law School; in 1965, she became the first African American to receive a Doctor of Juridical Science degree from the school. [65] Her dissertation was titled, "Roots of the Racial Crisis: Prologue to Policy ...
Winners and their families at the NAACP 2024 Black History Month essay competition, Oak Ridge. Aary’s White receiving his Supporter Award from Annette Flynn, Oak Ridge, June 2024.
Margaret Brent: first woman to act as an attorney in the United States (1648) Arabella Mansfield: first woman admitted to practice law in the United States (1869) Charlotte E. Ray: First African American female lawyer in the United States and Washington, D.C. (1872) Lyda Conley: First Native American female lawyer in the United States (1902)
She was the first black woman admitted to Columbia Law School in 1943 at the age of twenty-four. In 1947, Alexander became the first black woman to practice law in North Carolina. In 1968, Alexander became the first black judge elected in North Carolina and only the second black woman to be elected as a judge in the United States.
Jane Bolin was both the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School and serve as a judge in the United States. Thurgood Marshall was the first black Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. George Lewis Ruffin was both the first black man to earn a degree from Harvard Law School and become Massachusetts first African American judge.