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First African American Congresswoman from a southern state; while on House Judiciary Committee was influential in impeachment of Richard Nixon Wade H. McCree (1920–1987) [ 11 ] Second African American (following Thurgood Marshall ) to serve as Solicitor General of the United States
First African American male lawyers: Moses Simons (1816) [7] and Macon Bolling Allen (1844) [8] [9] [10] First African American male lawyer to win a jury trial: Robert Morris (1847) in 1848 [11] First male lawyer of Czech descent: Augustin Haidusek (c. 1870) [12] First African American male lawyer called to the English Bar: [13] Thomas Morris ...
21st-century African-American lawyers (597 P) J. African-American judges (1 C, 542 P) Pages in category "African-American lawyers"
African-American women lawyers in the United States face "dual discrimination" for being both Black and women. [1] As of 2022, less than 1% of law firm partners were Black women. [2] To fight against discrimination, Black women lawyers have founded numerous advocacy organizations.
Matthew T. Abruzzo: [29] First Italian American male to serve as a federal judge in New York (upon his appointment to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in 1936) Henry Bramwell: [64] First African American male appointed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1974)
The National Bar Association (NBA) was founded in 1925 and is the nation's oldest and largest national network of predominantly African-American attorneys and judges. It represents the interests of approximately 67,000 lawyers, judges, law professors, and law students.