Justice Cleo Elaine Powell, First and Only African American Woman on Virginia High Court, to Receive Diversity Achievement Award
Cleo Elaine Powell, a Virginia Supreme Court justice who in 2011 became the first and only African American woman to serve on the state's high court in its 244-year history, has been named the 2023 recipient of the state bar's Clarence M. Dunnaville Jr. Achievement Award.
May 23, 2023 at 02:50 PM
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Cleo Elaine Powell, a Virginia Supreme Court justice who in 2011 became the first and only African American woman to serve on the state's high court in its 244-year history, has been named the 2023 recipient of the state bar's Clarence M. Dunnaville Jr. Achievement Award.
The award honors a bar member for "setting an example that fellow members can emulate to meet the [state bar Diversity Conference's] goal of fostering, encouraging, and facilitating diversity and inclusion in the bar, the judiciary, and the legal profession," according to a state bar webpage describing the award.
It is sponsored by the Diversity Conference of the Virginia State Bar,
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