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Bill Pledger (c. 1880s): [51] First African American male lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia [DeKalb County and Fulton County, Georgia] Clarence Cooper (1967): [52] First African American male Judge of the Atlanta Municipal Court (DeKalb County and Fulton County, Georgia; 1975). He would later become a district court judge.
Fani Taifa Willis [3] (née Floyd; / f ɑː n iː /, FAH-nee; [3] born October 27, 1971) [1] [2] is an American attorney. She is the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, which contains most of Atlanta, serving since 2021. [4] She is the first woman to hold the office. [5]
This list includes individuals self-identified as African Americans who have made prominent contributions to the field of law in the United States, especially as eminent judges or legal scholars. Individuals who may have obtained law degrees or practiced law, but whose reasons for notability are not closely related to that profession, are ...
A once-prominent Atlanta attorney who fatally shot his wife in 2016 as they rode in an SUV pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to eight years in prison ...
Williams and Hudson were profiled by the Atlanta-based magazine Creative Loafing to talk about the events of 1970 and their lives since. Despite rumors that he had died, Williams was alive and well.
The Chamberlain Hrdlicka Atlanta office was founded by David Aughtry [2] in 1986 that has grown to over 50 attorneys including Hale Sheppard, [3] a tax controversy and international tax shareholder. The Philadelphia office was founded in 2007 and the San Antonio office was founded in 2011.
Atlanta Watershed Management installed a standalone water meter at the problem plot of land on Oct. 4, 2022. At the time, the plot was just dirt; Raw hadn’t even started laying the foundation ...
Eva L. Sloan: [55] First female lawyer in Milledgeville, Georgia [Baldwin County, Georgia] Alene Hardin (c. 1918): [56] First female lawyer in Macon, Georgia [Bibb County, Georgia] Faye Sanders Martin (1956): [57] First woman to practice law in Bulloch County, Georgia. She would later become the first female Ogeechee Judicial Circuit judge. [58]