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Tag: Lawyer
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Harvard Law School’s First Black Woman Graduate Dies at 87 From COVID-19
Lila A. Fenwick, the first Black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School, died on April 4 from coronavirus-related complications, reported The New York Times. She was 87. Born in Manhattan on May 24, 1932, Fenwick was the daughter of Trinidadian immigrants, Hilda and John Fenwick. According to the Times, Fenwick knew she wanted to be […]
April 13, 2020
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Why Tonya Butler Gave Up the Courtroom for the Classroom
As a self-described “starving actress” and someone who grew up in Los Angeles, pursuing the film and television industry was an obvious choice for Tonya Butler. She decided to take her interest in the entertainment industry one step further and pursued a law degree. On the first day of law school at California Western School […]
April 2, 2020
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First Black Graduate of UVA’s School of Law Dies at 87
John F. Merchant, the first Black graduate at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Law and the first African American to serve on the United States Golf Association’s executive committee, died earlier this month at 87, reports The Richmond Free Press. Born in 1933, Merchant paved a way out of poverty by pursuing education. […]
March 18, 2020
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