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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, 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.
20 de feb. de 2020 · Learn about the life and achievements of Constance Baker Motley, the first African American woman to serve as a federal judge and a key lieutenant of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the fight to end racial segregation. Discover how she overcame personal and professional challenges, and how she mentored many judges and clerks who followed her.
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. She was the first Black woman to argue before the Supreme Court and went on to win nine out of ten cases.
31 de mar. de 2023 · 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. She was also a federal judge, a state senator, and a civil rights activist. Learn more about her life and achievements at Columbia Law School.
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:...
29 de sept. de 2005 · Sept. 29, 2005. Correction Appended. Constance Baker Motley, a civil rights lawyer who fought nearly every important civil rights case for two decades and then became the first black woman to...
