ALA Congratulates Paulette Brown, the First Black Female President of the ABA On August 3, 2015, Paulette Brown made history as the first black female to serve as President of the American Bar Association. Read her installation speech here.

The Honorable J. Richmond Pearson, one of Alabama’s legal giant’s, passed today, October 23, 2014. Judge J. Richmond Pearson was a native of Birmingham, Alabama. He was born the youngest of seven children to William U. Pearson, Sr., a railroad dining car waiter and Ruth J. Pearson, an Atlanta University graduate and former classroom teacher. […]