American Bar Association history

In 1851, for example, the Indiana state constitution mandated that any citizen and voter of good character could begin a law practice.

In 1870 only five American women were working as lawyers, compared to a reported 40,731 male lawyers.

The American Economic Association was started in 1885.

Around 1890, Congress created the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal, which followed ABA guidelines.

By 1900 most state bar societies had been started, although they remained unconnected to the ABA in any formal way.

The ABA remained a small organization of just 1,718 members in 1902.

During the ABA's first twenty-five years, "the membership was small, the policy selective, the air rather social." With membership by invitation only, the original roster of 289 grew to a mere 1,718 lawyers by 1903.

1915: First issue of the American Bar Association Journal is published.

Her earliest experience in law was as a public defender for women in Los Angeles, starting in 1916.

In 1921 Harding appointed her assistant attorney general, a position that made her the highest-ranking woman in the federal government and the second woman to hold that position.

For those and other achievements, she was recognized with a medal from the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor in 1925.

Willebrandt was largely responsible for establishing the first federal reformatory for young male first-time offenders; it opened in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1926.

She fought for a federal prison for women; the first one in the country opened in Alderson, West Virginia, in 1927.

The bar went from just two sections, each with two officers, to 14 sections with 960 officers in 1935.

A mixture of populists, Marxists, and progressive attorneys, mostly on the East Coast, formed the guild in 1937.

In response to this Second Red Scare, often known as McCarthyism, the ABA in 1950 voted to expel all ABA members who were members of the Communist Party or supported Marxism-Leninism.

The American Journal of Legal History was established in 1957 as the first English-language legal history journal.

Auerbach, Jerold, Unequal Justice: Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America, New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Chester, Ronald, Unequal Access: Women Lawyers in a Changing America, Mass.: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 1985.

Further impetus came when the National Asian American Bar Association (later called NAPABA) Planning Committee invited various attorneys in New York City to Chicago in October 1988.

Announcing AABANY’s incorporation on October 20, 1989, the group invited attorneys to an inaugural reception at New York University Law School on November 9, 1989.

On January 12, 1991, AABANY held its first annual meeting, electing Serene Nakano, Doris Ling-Cohan, Steve Min, Glenn Ikeda and Marilyn Go as officers and Rockwell Chin, Sylvia Fung Chin, Merlin Liu, Stanley Mark, Qazi Moid and Judge Peter Tom as directors.

The ABA in Law and Social Policy: What Role?, Washington, D.C.: Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, 1994.

When it began, there were 66 organized projects nationwide; by 1995, there were more than 950.

1996: ABA dedicates its Museum of Law in Chicago.

Drachman, Virginia G., Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Since the september 11th attacks in 2001, the ABA has stepped up its opposition to laws requiring extra verification of citizenship for immigrants.

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