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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.
Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer and jurist, an effective advocate in the civil rights movement and the first African American woman to become a federal judge (1966–2005). While working at the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, she won nine civil rights cases before the Supreme Court.
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20 de feb. de 2020 · From the late 1940s through the mid-1960s, Constance Baker Motley did as much as any American to end racial segregation. Yet her memory has receded outside the federal Judiciary, where she became the first African American woman judge. Here is her remarkable story.
31 de mar. de 2023 · News From Columbia Law. 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.
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. When Judge Motley became Chief ...
3 de feb. de 2022 · Code Switch. The 'double-edged sword' of being a Black first. 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...
By Mac Daniel 03.01.2022. Constance Baker Motley, the remarkable civil rights leader and first African American woman to hold a federal judgeship, was long overdue for a deep biography when Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin began writing her new book nearly a decade ago.
