FULTON SUPERIOR COURT Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore has been a trailblazer since her days as one of the first black female law students at Emory University. Thirty years ago, she was one of the first black women in the city to become a judge, rising in 1990 to her current post on the busiest trial court in the state.
Elegant in a pale blue suit, Moore considered the changes in the city’s black bar on the eve of the National Bar Association’s annual convention in Atlanta. The NBA is the oldest and largest historically black bar in the nation, formed in 1925 by a group of black attorneys who were shut out of other bar organizations, including the American Bar Association, because of their race.
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