UVA Law black alumni make law a family business
UVA LAYWER — UVA Law alumni Errol and Kim Phipps ’91 have enjoyed successful careers as lawyers. Errol has risen to vice president and associate general counsel at AT&T. Kim serves as a litigator at Liberty Mutual. They became the multigenerational black family with both parents to have attended UVA Law.
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UVA LAWYER — These alumni are a rarity for UVA Law: African-American judges who are husband and wife. Judge Raymond Jackson ’73 sits on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Judge Gwendolyn Jones Jackson ’72 is retired from the Norfolk General District Court, but still hears cases as a substitute judge.…
Read More about UVA Law alumni bring professionalism to the benchUVA Law commemorates the legacy of Gregory Swanson as university’s first black student
UVA LAWYER — Gregory Hayes Swanson ‘ was the first black man to integrate the University of Virginia. Having obtained his law degree from Howard University, Swanson needed a master’s in law to be eligible for a prospective teaching job. Swanson sued UVA Law for his right to a graduate education and won.
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UVA LAWYER — Elaine Ruth Jones ’70 was the first black woman to attend UVA Law. In her three-decade career with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Jones made a difference in thousands of lives in criminal and civil cases. Jones eventually became the first woman to rise to director-counsel and president.
Read More about UVA Law alumna Elaine Jones on her trailblazing career with the NAACP Legal Defense FundUtah S.J. Quinney Law alumnus Raymond Uno to receive honorary doctorate degree
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW — S.J. Quinney Law alumnus Raymond Uno ’67 will receive an honorary doctorate degree at the 2018 commencement ceremony. Uno had a successful legal career as a referee of the juvenile court, deputy Salt Lake County attorney, assistant attorney general of Utah and in private practice.
Read More about Utah S.J. Quinney Law alumnus Raymond Uno to receive honorary doctorate degreeThe law school experience from the perspective of first-generation students
NATIONAL JURIST — National Jurist provides a look at what the first-generation law student experience is like, tips for surviving and thriving, and a list of law schools dedicated to helping first-gen students succeed.
Read More about The law school experience from the perspective of first-generation studentsAmerican University Washington College of Law hosts National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference
DIVERSE ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION — More than 550 law professors and scholars from around the world convened at American University Washington College of Law for the 4th National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference. The theme of the four-day gathering was “People of Color and the Future of Democracy.”
Read More about American University Washington College of Law hosts National People of Color Legal Scholarship ConferenceAmerican University Washington College of Law Dean Camille Nelson honored by Diverse Issues in Higher Education
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW — Dean Camille Nelson was named among the Top 35 Women in Higher Education by Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine. Nelson is the only law school dean on the list that features 11 university and college presidents, several vice presidents and provosts, among other exceptional professors and administrators.
Read More about American University Washington College of Law Dean Camille Nelson honored by Diverse Issues in Higher EducationA look at HBCU pre-law pipeline programs
DIVERSE ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION — Dillard University’s Center for Law and Public Interest Pre-Law program is furthering its goal to move the needle on diversity in legal education. The HBCU has launched and implemented the Legal Education Advancing Diversity (LEAD) Program and the Foundation to LEAD Program over the last two years.
Read More about A look at HBCU pre-law pipeline programsUniversity of South Carolina trailblazing alumni discuss race and racism, transcendence of success
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW — In 1968, I.S. Leevy Johnson became the first African-American graduate since Reconstruction to complete all three years of law school at the University of South Carolina. Fifty years later, Chelsea Evans graduated after serving as the first African-American editor-in-chief of the South Carolina Law Review.
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