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Honoring and recognizing Paulette Brown, Esquire for her recent election as the first African-American woman to become president-elect of the American Bar Association.
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WHEREAS, Ms. Brown has served on the ABA House of Delegates since 1997 and from 2007-2010, she served on the Board of Governors. She has also served various other positions in the ABA such as chair of the Coalition on Racial and Ethnic Justice and co-chair of the Commission on Civic Education in the Nation's Schools; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Brown has received numerous awards from various state and national bar associations. She has been honored by the National Bar Association with its Equal Justice Award and its Gertrude Rush Award. Additionally, Ms. Brown received the American Bar Association's prestigious Spirit of Excellence Award. In 2011, she was honored with the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession. She also recently received the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association's Women's Initiative and Leaders in Law Platinum Award and the New Jersey State Bar Association's Excellence in Diversity Award. Additionally, Ms. Brown has received the Thurgood Marshall Award from the Garden State Bar Association; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Brown has held many positions throughout her career including as house counsel to several Fortune 500 companies and as a municipal judge. She earned her J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law and her B.A. at Howard University. She is a partner with the law firm of Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP. For more than 20 years, she has focused her practice on labor and employment matters. She has successfully litigated a variety of employment matters, including class actions, sexual harassment, marital status, worker adjustment and retraining notification, race and age discrimination and issues pertaining to the Family and Medical Leave Act; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Brown is considered as one of the "50 most influ...
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