Brooklyn Law School hosts exhibit featuring the First Latina Lawyers
Brooklyn Law School (BLS) hosted a showing of and reception for “Luminarias de la Ley: An Exhibit of the First Latina Lawyers 1900-1980,” a pictorial timeline of the history of Latina lawyers in the U.S. in Downtown Brooklyn Friday night.
The showing and reception is an original research project by University of Denver visiting scholar Dolores S. Atencio, who gave a lecture prior to the reception. Despite its name, the exhibit began as far back as the 1873 case of Bradwell v. Illinois — in which the U.S. Supreme Court denied women admission to the bar — and it ended with Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s 2009 appointment to that same U.S. Supreme Court. In between, it tells the stories of 40 luminaries.