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  2. Charlotte E. Ray - Wikipedia

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    Charlotte E. Ray (January 13, 1850 – January 4, 1911) was an American lawyer. She was the first black American female lawyer in the United States. [1] [2] Ray graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1872. She was also the first female admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, and the first woman admitted to practice before the ...

  3. List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States

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    Margaret Brent: first woman to act as an attorney in the United States (1648) Arabella Mansfield: first woman admitted to practice law in the United States (1869) Charlotte E. Ray: First African American female lawyer in the United States and Washington, D.C. (1872) Lyda Conley: First Native American female lawyer in the United States (1902)

  4. Macon Bolling Allen - Wikipedia

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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. Allen passed the bar exam in Maine in 1844 and became a Massachusetts ...

  5. West Palm Beach attorney becomes Florida Bar's first Black ...

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    She is the first Black woman to hold the position. ... She helped co-found the Sheree Davis Cunningham Black Women Lawyers Association, named after the first Black woman judge in Florida's 15th ...

  6. Constance Baker Motley - Wikipedia

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    Constance Baker Motley ( née Baker; September 14, 1921 – September 28, 2005) was an American jurist and politician who served as a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York . A key strategist of the civil rights movement, she was state senator, and Borough President of Manhattan in New York City before ...

  7. Jane Bolin - Wikipedia

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    Jane Bolin. Jane Matilda Bolin (April 11, 1908 – January 8, 2007) was an American attorney and judge. She was the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association and the first to join the New York City Law Department. Bolin became the first black woman to serve as a judge in the United ...

  8. Eunice Carter - Wikipedia

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    Eunice Roberta Hunton Carter (July 16, 1899 – January 25, 1970) was an American lawyer. She was one of New York 's first female African-American lawyers and one of the first African-American prosecutors in the United States. She was active in the Pan-African Congress and in United Nations committees to advance the status of women in the world.

  9. African-American women in the legal profession - Wikipedia

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    The first Black female lawyer in the United States was Charlotte E. Ray. She attended Howard University, becoming the first Black woman to graduate from an American law school in 1872. [ 3] Ray was followed by former anti-slavery activist Mary Ann Shadd Cary, who graduated from Howard in 1883. [ 4] Both women set up law practices in Washington ...