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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 .
23 de abr. de 2024 · Constance Baker Motley (born September 14, 1921, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.—died September 28, 2005, New York, New York) was an American lawyer and jurist, an effective legal advocate in the civil rights movement and the first African American woman to become a federal judge (1966–2005).
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31 de mar. de 2023 · Story Archive. Celebrating the Life of Constance Baker Motley ’46. A pioneering civil rights lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund who argued 10 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, Motley was the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge.
Advocate. Judge. Elected Official. Motley with LDF founder Thurgood Marshall and former LDF Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg. One of LDF’s first female attorneys, Constance Baker Motley wrote the original complaint in Brown v. Board of Education and pioneered the legal campaigns for several seminal school desegregation cases.
20 de feb. de 2020 · Constance Baker Motley: Judiciary’s Unsung Rights Hero | United States Courts. Published onFebruary 20, 2020. Constance Baker Motley first met Martin Luther King, Jr., in July 1962, after successfully arguing that protesters had the right to demonstrate in Albany, Georgia. Lawyer William Kuntsler is at right.
With her appointment to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on January 25, 1966, Constance Baker Motley (1921–2005; Columbia Law School 1946, 2003) became the first African American woman appointed to the federal judiciary. She was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
3 de feb. de 2022 · The arc of Motley's life—as a lawyer, as a politician and eventually as the first Black woman to be appointed to the Federal bench – is outlined in a new biography, Civil Rights Queen: Constance...
