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Name Historical significance Violette Neatley Anderson (1882–1937) [1]: First African-American woman to practice law before the United States Supreme Court on January 29, 1926
First male lawyer of Czech descent: Augustin Haidusek (c. 1870) [12] First African American male lawyer called to the English Bar: [13] Thomas Morris Chester (1870) First deaf male lawyer: Joseph G. Parkinson (1880) [14] First Turkish American male lawyer: James Ben Ali Haggin (c. 1880s) [15] First Chinese male lawyer: Hong Yen Chang (1888) [16]
Alfred Hemmons: First African American male lawyer admitted to the Lehigh County Bar Association (1975) Maxwell H. Cohen: [57] First Jewish male lawyer admitted to the Monroe County Bar Association in Pennsylvania. He was also the first lawyer to hire an African American law clerk and a female law clerk.
The Vault.com Guide to America's Top 50 Law Firms (1998) Oller, John. White Shoe: How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business and the American Century (2019), excerpt; Power, Roscoe. "Legal Profession in America," 19 Notre Dame Law Review (1944) pp 334+ online; Wald, Eli, "The rise and fall of the WASP and Jewish law firms."
A prominent Black lawyer was passed over for three federal judicial vacancies in South Florida, but on Wednesday Detra Shaw-Wilder finally got the nod from the president for a fourth opening on ...
He was also the first black lawyer to win a lawsuit. [ 2 ] : 96–97 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 ...
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.
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