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2. African-American women in the legal profession - Wikipedia

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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]

3. List of African American jurists - Wikipedia

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   First African-American woman to practice law before the United States Supreme Court on January 29, 1926 Dennis Archer (b. 1942) [2] First African American president of the American Bar Association; former mayor of Detroit: Derrick Bell (1930–2011) [3] Proponent of critical race theory; law professor at Harvard University: Stephen L. Carter (b ...

4. List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States

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   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)

5. List of first women lawyers and judges in California - Wikipedia

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   Estella Dooley (1958): [242] First African American female lawyer to work for the San Francisco Public Defender's Office (c. 1970s) Joanne M. Garvey (1962): [243] First female to serve as the President of the Bar Association of San Francisco (1981) Mary C. Morgan (1972): [244] First openly LGBT female judge in San Francisco County, California ...

6. List of first women lawyers and judges in Texas - Wikipedia

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   Charlye O. Farris (1953): [12] First female lawyer (and African American female) to practice law in Wichita County, Texas; Arthur Beatrice "Bea" Williams: [235] [236] First African American (female) to serve as a justice of the peace and Wichita County judge; Pat Norriss: [237] First female to serve on the commissioner’s court in Wichita ...

7. Women in the United States judiciary - Wikipedia

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   Jeffrey Toobin, Women in Black, NEW YORKER, at 48 (Oct. 30, 2000). Belva Ann Lockwood, "My Efforts to Become a Lawyer", Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, February 1888. See articles about women attorneys by Barbara Babcock, Jill Norgren, and Mary Clark; See articles posted on the Stanford University Law School Women and Law website