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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]
ImeIme Umana (born 1993) is an American lawyer who served as a law clerk for Robert L. Wilkins [1] and Sonia Sotomayor. She was the 131st president—and the first black female president—of the Harvard Law Review. [2] [3]
Carol Lani Guinier (/ ˈ l ɑː n i ɡ w ɪ ˈ n ɪər / LAH-nee gwin-EER; April 19, 1950 – January 7, 2022) was an American educator, legal scholar, and civil rights theorist. She was the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship there. [1]
Lisa Schiavo Blatt (born 1964/1965) is an American lawyer known for her advocacy before the Supreme Court of the United States.As of November 5, 2024, she has argued before the Supreme Court 52 times—the most of any woman in U.S. history.
Austin was on the staff of the Rocky Mountain Law Review and of the Cincinnati Law Review. [38] In 1938 she received a Doctor of Laws degree from Wilberforce University. She was the first black woman to serve as Assistant Attorney General in Ohio (1937–38) and became legal advisor to the District of Columbia government in 1939.
Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, [1] and politician.A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, [2] the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives, [3] [4] and one of the first two African Americans elected to the U.S. House ...
"I am the only one. Again," the young black woman says, staring straight into the camera. And so begins a new, fictional web series about a black woman named Racey Jones working in an all-white ...
She earned a bachelor's degree in history from Barnard College in 1953, [4] [5] before enrolling at Harvard Law School. [1] A student in the class of 1956, Fenwick matriculated into the school's fourth class that admitted women. [2] She then continued her studies at the London School of Economics. [1]