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From 1989 to 1994, she worked at the Detroit law firm of Dickinson Wright, becoming a partner in 1992. From 1994 to 2000, she served as an executive assistant United States attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan. She served as director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights from 2003 to 2008.
Betty R. Widgeon: [90] First female (and African American female) to serve as a Judge of the 14-A District Court in Washtenaw County, Michigan (1994) Martha Strickland Clark (1887): [91] First female lawyer in Detroit, Michigan [Wayne County, Michigan] Clara T. Livermore: [92] First female judge in Detroit, Michigan (1914) [Wayne County, Michigan]
Scott was elected to the Detroit City Council in 1993. [1] At the time of her death in 2002, Scott had begun her third term and was the City Council Designee on the City of Detroit General Retirement System Board of Trustees. She was the first African-American woman to serve as a trustee. [1]
Kym Loren Worthy (born December 5, 1956) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the prosecutor of Wayne County, Michigan since 2004. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first African-American woman to serve as a county prosecutor in Michigan.
Sharon McPhail is an American attorney and politician who served on the Detroit City Council from 2002 until 2006. McPhail was a candidate for mayor in the 1993 and 2005 elections. She was formerly a lawyer in private practice, a division chief in the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, and an assistant United States attorney.
Low-income renters in Detroit who are facing eviction can now receive free legal assistance, thanks to a newly passed ordinance The post City council approves free legal help for Detroit residents ...
Barbara Lynn McQuade [1] (born December 22, 1964) [2] is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 2010 to 2017. As part of President Donald Trump's 2017 dismissal of U.S. attorneys, she stepped down in March 2017. [3]
The attorneys general of Minnesota, Wisconsin and California have filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of Nessel's lawsuit. [57] In 2021, the case was removed to federal court. [ 58 ] Proceedings were delayed while the parties battled over whether the suit would be heard in state or federal court; in August 2022, a federal judge ruled ...