National Bar Association

National Bar Association
TypeLegal society
HeadquartersWashington, DC
Location
  • United States
Membership
67,000 in 2023
Websitehttp://www.nationalbar.org/

The National Bar Association (NBA) was founded in 1925 and is the nation's oldest and largest national network of predominantly African-American attorneys and judges. It represents the interests of approximately 67,000 lawyers, judges, law professors, and law students.

The NBA is organized around 25 substantive law sections, 10 divisions, 12 regions, and numerous affiliate chapters throughout the United States and around the world. The current and 80th president is Lonita Baker. She will be followed by president-elect Dominique D. Calhoun.

Structure and activities

The National Bar Association (NBA) is governed by a Board of Governors, mostly elected from the membership but also including NBA's officers and representatives of groups such as the NBA's Divisions.

The National Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, chaired by Ashley Lee, represents the new members of the legal profession, and membership is open to NBA members who have been admitted to practice for less than 10 years or are under 40 years old. The association has several affiliate chapters located throughout the United States, including The Cook County Bar Association, The Barristers' Association of Philadelphia, the California Association of Black Lawyers, the Washington Bar Association, the Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter National Bar Association, the Garden State Bar Association and the Metropolitan Black Bar Association.

The National Bar Institute (NBI) is the philanthropic arm of the NBA, founded in 1982. The association has established an annual award in honor of the late Louisiana State Representative Pinkie C. Wilkerson of Grambling—the "Pinkie C. Wilkerson Outstanding State Legislator of the Year Award". The NBA offers a job listing service as well as advertising in its magazine to assist employers seeking to conduct affirmative action outreach toward minority job applicants.

History

The National Bar Association was established in 1925 as the "Negro Bar Association" after Gertrude Rush, George H. Woodson, S. Joe Brown, James B. Morris, and Charles P. Howard, Sr., were denied membership in the American Bar Association. The young Charles Hamilton Houston, future dean of Howard University Law School, also helped with the founding.

Its first president was George H. Woodson of Des Moines, Iowa. Arnette Hubbard became the NBA's first female president in 1981.

In 1940, the NBA attempted to establish "free legal clinics in all cities with a colored population of 5,000 or more." Its members supported litigation that achieved a US Supreme Court ruling that defendants had to be provided with legal counsel.

In 2010, the NBA partnered with the U.S. Census Bureau to work toward a complete and accurate count of the nation's population through various outreach activities.

Affiliates

Alabama

  • Birmingham: Brazil Bar Association
  • Montgomery: Alabama Lawyers Association

Arkansas

  • Little Rock: W. Harold Flowers Society

California

  • Los Angeles: Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
  • Los Angeles: John M. Langston Bar Association
  • Mill Valley: CA Association of Black Lawyers
  • Oakland: Charles Houston Bar Association
  • Sacramento: Wiley M. Manuel Bar Association
  • San Diego: Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association
  • Santa Clara: Black Women Lawyers Association of Northern CA

District of Columbia

  • Washington: Morocco
  • Washington: Washington Bar Association
  • Washington: GWAC

Delaware

  • Wilmington: Delaware Barristers Association

Florida

  • Apopka: Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter

Georgia

  • Atlanta: Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys
  • Atlanta: Gate City Bar Association
  • Carrollton

Illinois

  • Chicago: Cook County Bar Association

Indiana

  • Indianapolis: Marion County Bar Association

Kentucky

  • Lexington: John Rowe Chapter
  • Louisville: Louisville Black Lawyers Association

Louisiana

  • Baton Rouge: Louis A. Martinet – Baton Rouge

Massachusetts

  • Boston: Mass. Black Lawyers Association

Maryland

  • Baltimore: Alliance of Black Women Attorneys
  • Baltimore: Monumental City Bar Association
  • Greenbelt: J. Franklyn Bourne Bar Association

Michigan

  • Detroit: Wolverine Bar Association
  • Lansing: Davis-Dunning Affiliate Chapter
  • Troy: D. Augustus Straker Bar Association

Minnesota

  • Minneapolis: Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers

Missouri

  • Kansas City: Jackson County Bar Association
  • St. Louis: Mound City Bar Association ()

Mississippi

  • Jackson: Magnolia Bar Association

New Jersey

  • Trenton: Garden State Bar Association

New Mexico

  • Albuquerque: New Mexico Black Lawyers Association

Nevada

  • Las Vegas: Las Vegas Chapter

New York

  • New York: Metropolitan Black Bar Association
  • New York: Association of Black Women Attorneys
  • Rochester: Rochester Black Bar Association
  • Wheatley Heights: Amistad Long Island Black Bar

Ohio

  • Cincinnati: Black Lawyers Association of Cincinnati
  • Cleveland: Norman S. Minor Bar Association
  • Columbus: John Mercer Langston Bar Association

Pennsylvania

  • Philadelphia: Barristers Association of Philadelphia

Tennessee

  • Memphis: Ben F. Jones Chapter
  • Nashville: Napier-Looby Chapter

Texas

  • Austin: Austin Black Lawyers Association
  • Dallas: J.L. Turner Legal Association
  • Dallas: AA Lawyers of TX State Bar
  • Fort Worth: L. Clifford Davis Legal Association
  • Houston: Houston Lawyers Association

Virginia

  • Richmond: Old Dominion Bar Association

Washington

  • Seattle: Loren Miller Bar Association

See also


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