| Summary: | Lawyer Paulette Brown was born on April 28, 1951, in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1973, Brown received her B.S. degree in political science from Howard University; and her J.D. degree from Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey in 1976. Brown spent nine years as in-house counsel to several Fortune 500 companies. In 1983, she was elected president of the Association of Black Women Lawyers of New Jersey. Brown was a founding partner of Brown & Childress for sixteen years, and in 1993, was elected president of the National Bar Association. She became a member of the American Bar Association in 1997. In 1999, she joined Duane, Morris & Heckscher LLP as a partner, going on to join Edwards & Angell LLP as a partner in 2005. Brown became the first woman of color and the third African-American to be elected president of the American Bar Association in 2015.
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