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Macon Bolling Allen (born Allen Macon Bolling; August 4, 1816 – October 15, 1894) was an American attorney who is believed to be the first African American to become a lawyer and to argue before a jury, and the second to hold a judicial position in the United States.
First African American male (justice of the peace): Macon Bolling Allen in 1847 [4] [5] First African American male (judge): George Lewis Ruffin (1869) in 1883 [1] [2] [3] First Native American male (Great and General Court of Massachusetts): Watson F. Hammond in 1885 [13] First Jewish American male: Abraham K. Cohen in 1912 [14]
Macon Judicial Circuit (2014–2020); Georgia Court of Appeals (2020–2021); Georgia Supreme Court (2021– ) Georgia: active: Charles Swinger Conley [171] Macon County Court of Common Pleas (elec. 1972) Alabama: deceased: C. Ellen Connally [172] Cleveland Municipal Court (1980–2004) Ohio: deceased: Annette Cook [27] Office of Administrative ...
According to some sources, Morris and Macon Bolling Allen opened America's first black law office in Boston, [5] but the authors of Sarah's Long Walk say there is "no direct knowledge that [Allen and Morris] ever met", [6] nor is such a partnership mentioned in Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944.
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