Top Producers of African Americans with Law Degrees

[Cholly]

SkegeeFamu is right.

Keep in mind the number of blacks who attend Georgia State.....

[SkegeeFAMU]

SkegeeFamu is right.

Keep in mind the number of blacks who attend Georgia State.....

Great example my friend.  Georgia State confers more degrees to African Americans in GA than any other single institution in GA.  Also, GA Southern's AA enrollment is almost as big as the total enrollment of any of our GA HBCU's. 

Does that diminish what Spelman, Morehouse, CAU, FVSU, SSU, AlbSU are doing?  Again, I say no!!

[Cholly]

^^^^^We are thinking along the SAME lines.

Before you responded I was going to type:

And to take SkegeeFAMUs point further, Georgia State has 30,000+ students, 36% of whom are BLACK. 41% are white.

Those numbers don't mean or SAY a THING about the States HBCUs OR it's PWCs.

[WileECoyote06]

2008-2009 Top Producers of African Americans with Law Degrees

1 Howard University 102  
2 Texas Southern University 95
3 Florida A&M University (Orlando) 90
4 Thomas M. Cooley Law School MI 83
5 Southern University Law Center 68
6 Harvard University 66
7 Georgetown University 56  
8 North Carolina Central University 47
9 American University 46
10 George Washington University 38
10 New York University 38
12 University of Virginia 37
13 Florida Coastal School of Law 34
14 Brooklyn Law School 32
14 Columbia University 32

Source: U.S. Department of Education
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Howard University School of Law

• January 6, 1869  Law Department opened its doors to students
• February 3, 1871 first class graduated
• 1872  law school graduated the first black woman lawyer, Charlotte E. Ray. She was first woman to be admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
• 1900 Three year law program began
• 1931 School of Law was accredited by the American Bar Association, (ABA), and granted membership in the Association of American Law Schools, (AALS)

Thurgood Marshall, Howard Law graduated was the first African American to be a United States Supreme Court Justice
Two of the 4 African Americans US Senators, post reconstruction, are graduates of the Howard University School of Law: Edward William Brooke, III and Roland Burris


Texas Southern University
Thurgood Marshall School of Law

• 1947 Established under Texas State Senate Bill 140 as a consequence of a 1946 lawsuit brought by Heman M. Sweatt. Under the Texas Constitution, which required separate but equal treatment. As a result, the legislature provided for an interim and separate law school for African Americans. During its first academic year, the law school was housed in Austin, Texas
• 1950 Law School awarded its first Doctor of Jurisprudence degree
• February 14, 1976 school was formally named The Thurgood Marshall School of Law

Barbara C. Jordan, in 1972, was elected to the US House of Representatives, becoming the first African American woman from a Southern state to serve in the House.


Florida A&M University College of Law

• December 21, 1949 division of law established
• 1951 First class was admitted in 1951
• 1965 Florida legislature transferred law school to Florida State University
• 1966 Florida A&M lost the right to admit students for law
• 1968 The last Florida A&M law students graduated

57 law students graduated from the school between 1954 and 1968

• 2000 Florida Legislature unanimously passed legislation establishing a College of Law for Florida A&M University to be located in Orlando
• June 14, 2000  Governor Jeb Bush signed the bill into law
• 2003 Florida A&M University College of Law opens in Orlando
• 2004 The American Bar Association granted the Florida A&M University College of Law provisional approval
• July 2009 ABA accreditation was achieved

Southern University Law Center

• January 10, 1947 Plans for the law school were approved by the State Board of Education
• September 1947 Law school opened to provide legal education for African American students

There are more than 3,000 alumni of the Southern University Law Center
Mary Gloria Lawson was the first African American woman admitted to the Louisiana Bar June 12, 1956
Justice Revius O. Ortique, Jr. former member of the Louisiana Supreme Court
Chris Roggerson, Jr.  former supervising attorney of the U.S. Employment Opportunity Commission, former deputy director to Secretary in the U.S. Department for Health, Education, and Welfare's Office of Civil Rights and former staff director of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.


North Carolina Central University - School of Law

• 1939 North Carolina General Assembly authorized the North Carolina College for Negroes to establish a law school for African Americans
• 1940 School formally opened
• 1944 school admitted its first women
• 1965 First white students enrolled

Maynard Jackson First African American mayor of Atlanta
George K. Butterfield, Jr. former NC Resident Superior Court judge. In February 2001, he was appointed to the North Carolina Supreme Court by Governor Mike Easley. Butterfield was elected to Congress in on July 20, 2004.
Mike Easley former Governor  (Dem), State of North Carolina serving 2 terms from 2001 to 2009

Where is the University of the District of Coulumbia?

Miles isn't listed either.

[Ivan]

FAMU has had a few classes with larger white populations than black.

And we have ALL seen Nova criticize various HBCUs in his threads just like he criticized Central in this one: WITHOUT JUSTIFICATION.

It's OLD now...

Cholly, you just took the words out of my mouth.
 

[NovaSkegee]

What's the deal with YOU?!?!

Why do you ALWAYS feel the need and find a way to CRITICIZE HBCUs in EVERY SINGLE THREAD?  

Right is right and wrong is wrong. When NCCU is a historical black law school it should be called out when they don't rank in the top 4. Let's be serious......and lets call out the facts when we see them and stop getting upset.

Ranking behind 2 very top law schools makes NCCU look bad.

[Cholly]

That's just illogical man and you know it.

Georgia State University.

[NovaSkegee]

I'd rather see NCCU graduate confer 500 law degrees and all 500 pass the bar, rather than have a situation where they confer 1,000+ degrees and only half pass the bar.

Oh, so because Howard, Texas Southern, Florida A&M (which is new), and Southern rank tops that means they are not graduating top students?

[NovaSkegee]

The question should be what % pass the bar exam and what is the number of graduates.?  Getting into Law school is competitive in the RTP area of NC.  I would question the number of black males at all the institutions listed. With an acceptance rate of 20% many persons who apply do not get in to a school located in a hot area of NC.  I'm sure that will be the case with FAMU in Orlando.  Many bright applicants apply and acceptance in competitive.  The nature of that beast.   That is the deal with NCCU.  It is a very good school of Law has a very good image in the area.  Excellent faculty and students. It may not fit Nova's idea of an HBCU but we like it.

There are 2 public law schools, UNC and NCCU, and 1 private law school, at Duke University, in metropolitan Raleigh-Durham.

Now, FAMU is a new law school and for diversity the state of Florida placed the law school in Orlando and due to there being a law school at Florida State.

Now, with FAMU having one of the most diverse law school enrollments in the country they rank higher than NCCU in terms of black graduates.

NCCU looks bad.

Here are the facts:

Florida A&M University's College of Law Named Most Diverse Law School

May 7, 2010

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Law was recognized by U.S. News & World Report for having the most diverse law school in the nation - for the second consecutive year.

FAMU tied for top honors with Texas Southern University the previous year.

The groups that form the basis for the calculations are African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, and non-Hispanic whites.

http://www.famu.edu/index.cfm?a=headlines&p=display&news=1642

[Brother Tony]

 

[NovaSkegee]

The truth is the truth. For NCCU to be one of the few HBCUs with a law school ......how on earth does Harvard and Georgetown graduate more blacks than an HBCU? That means something is wrong at NCCU.

[NovaSkegee]

Miles isn't listed either.

Miles is a very small law school.

[Cholly]

Yeah, but aren't there WHITE schools in Alabama that graduate MORE black lawyers than Miles?

Why aren't you criticizing Miles? Huh?

Cumberland Law school is in the 'Ham. IT graduates just as many blacks as Miles. Where is your outrage?

[NovaSkegee]

Yeah, but aren't there WHITE schools in Alabama that graduate MORE black lawyers than Miles?

Why aren't you criticizing Miles? Huh?

Cumberland Law school is in the 'Ham. IT graduates just as many blacks as Miles. Where is your outrage?

Alabama doesn't have a public law school.

Miles Law School admitted its first class in August 1974 and the first graduates finished in 1978. The Miles Law School is a non ABA Law School. The American Bar Association',s (ABA) Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions  has not granted Miles full accreditation. American Bar Association (ABA) approval is a critical requirement for any law school.

Howard is the oldest and most well known thus ranks tops.

The public law schools are as you know are: Texas Southern, Southern, Florida A&M and North Carolina Central. They should be ranked at tops for black graduates as they all are with the exception of NCCU that ranks under Harvard and Georgetown.  

That's the point. How on earth does NCCU rank under Harvard and Georgetown?

[NovaSkegee]

If NCCU doesn't watch out the Charlotte School of Law will end up passing them by with black graduates.

The Charlotte School of Law was founded in 2006
Charlotte School of Law received provisional approval from the American Bar Association in June 2008.
http://www.charlottelaw.edu

Total full-time enrollment:  380
Total part-time enrollment:  101





Provisionally Approved Law Schools of the ABA are currently:
Charlotte School of Law
Elon University School of Law