BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - After two decades on the bench, Judge Carole Smitherman is officially retiring—but she’s not leaving the legal world behind. On Friday night, colleagues, friends, and ...

Judge L. Clifford Davis holds a book, released by local attorney Bobbie Edmonds, about his life and legacy. Davis opened one of the first African-American law offices in Tarrant County and was one ...

Macon Bolling Allen went on to become the nation's first African American judge and was a partner at the first Black-led firm in South Carolina. The portrait arrived in Portland in 1873.

Lockheed Martin Corp, rejecting a proposed class action settlement. Because Clemon was the first African-American judge on the federal bench in Alabama, this letter would seem to carry some weight.

Trailblazing Black Judge Clarence Parrish was honored Friday with street signs on Teutonia Avenue between Center and Clarke streets. That area is where his law office used to be. In 1981, Parrish ...

In a historic milestone for Oregon’s judiciary, Judge Raymond Dean Crutchley now serves as the first African-American judge east of the Cascades, presiding over the Deschutes County Circuit Court.

Roughly four years later, in 1969, he returned to WTOP as its first African American news anchor, serving until 1978. Following his time at WTOP, he moved to Chicago and was a co-anchor for ABC ...

Howe J.D. ’74 arrived at Boston College Law School in 1970 as one of its very few female African American students. Twenty-seven years later, she became the first Black woman to ... academics, judges, ...