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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.
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Michigan.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
In January 2022, the members of the council elected Sheffield to serve as council president over Mary D. Waters, succeeding Brenda Jones. [14] She became the youngest president of the council. [ 15 ] In August 2023, Sheffield set up an exploratory committee for a candidacy for mayor of Detroit in the 2025 election , hiring Nick Rathod as an ...
Grace G. Costavas Murphy (sometimes referred to as Grayce Costavas Murphy) was Michigan’s first African American female lawyer. [1] She graduated from the Detroit College of Law in 1923. Upon being sworn in as an attorney in Wayne County the same year, Murphy became the first African American female admitted to practice law in Michigan.
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]
Wayne Detroit Webasto worker Trina Towns, right, listens to National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo talk with Michigan workers from two Webasto parts plants at UAW Local ...
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 ...
While her business has been a success so far thanks to this hard work, Detroit's real estate boom helped fuel this success. The median price plummeted to $58,900 in 2009 and the city filed for ...