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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).
31 de mar. de 2023 · 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.
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.
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.
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 Baker Motley Taught the Nation How to Win Justice. The pathbreaking lawyer and “Civil Rights Queen” was the first Black woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court. Tomiko...
