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The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies Moorish sovereign citizens as an extremist anti-government group. [3] [9] Tactics used by the group include filing false deeds and property claims, [10] false liens against government officials, frivolous legal motions to overwhelm courts, and invented legalese used in court appearances and filings. [2]
Steven Robert Donziger (born September 14, 1961) [1] [2] is an American attorney known for his legal battles with Chevron, particularly Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc. and other cases in which he represented over 30,000 farmers and indigenous people who suffered environmental damage and health problems caused by oil drilling in the Lago Agrio oil field of Ecuador.
After graduation, Young worked as a lawyer with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2003 to 2006. [5] She worked on school desegregation issues, voter rights such as ensuring Choctaw tribe members received voting instructions in their native language, and was a delegate to Human Rights conventions on torture in Geneva, Switzerland.
Sarah Deer (born November 9, 1972 [2]) is a Native American (Muscogee (Creek) Nation [1]) lawyer, and a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies and Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas. [3] She was a 2014 MacArthur fellow and has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2019. [1] [4] [5]
Marion Ironquill Meadmore (born 1936) is an Ojibwa-Cree Canadian activist and lawyer. Meadmore was the first woman of the First Nations to attain a law degree in Canada. She founded the first Indian and Métis Friendship Centre in Canada to assist Indigenous people who had relocated to urban areas with adjustments to their new communities.
James Lawrence McDonald (c. 1801 — September 1831) was a member of the Choctaw Nation and the first Native leader of his generation to be trained in the American legal system. [1] Thus, he is known as the first Native American lawyer.
Todd P. Graves is a private practice attorney and Republican politician, who previously served as United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. A twice-elected state prosecutor who is currently in private practice with the law firm Graves Garrett LLC, his practice focuses on representing individuals and businesses nationwide before federal and state courts and administrative ...
Noah W. Parden (c. 1890): [19] First African American male lawyer in St. Clair County, Missouri; Eleazer Block (1814): [20] First Jewish male lawyer in the independent city of St. Louis, Missouri (1817) Crittenden Clark: [2] [5] First African American male to serve as the Justice of the Peace for St. Louis, Missouri (1922)