Introducing the new President of the American Bar Association:
Paulette Brown, the first African American woman to be named President of the Association.
And she's going to be placing a focus on diversity issues.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2015/08/05/diversity-takes-center-stage-with-new-american-bar-association-president/
Three months after the first African American woman was confirmed as the nation's attorney general, another is starting her term as president of the nation's largest professional association of lawyers.
Paulette Brown, a labor and employment law partner at the firm Locke Lord LLP in Morristown, N.J., took office Tuesday as the American Bar Association's first African American female president, a role she was elected to a year ago. Brown says a focus on diversity issues will be one of her top goals during her one-year tenure.
Her intention is not only to recruit and retain more women and minorities into a field that lags behind other professions in terms of diversity. Brown also says she wants to help shore up the nation's faith in a justice system that has come under fire following its handling of several high-profile incidents involving the deaths of African Americans over the last year, such as those in Ferguson, Missouri and New York.
"People of all races appear to be having less confidence in law enforcement," Brown said in an interview with The Washington Post. "We have an obligation to understand that and speak out on those issues, and that is what we’re planning to do."
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