Atlanta Daily World

Negro Woman, Named Judge, Meets Solons
(From ANP Washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON- (ANP) - The first Negro woman ever nominated for a judgeship by a U. S. President appeared before the Senate District Committee last week and expressed her gratitude for the history making appointment.

Atty. Marjorie McKenzie Lawson, a longtime resident of Washington, who has been nominated for an associate judgeship on the three member District Juvenile Court, spoke briefly before Committee chairman Sen. Alan Bible, of Nebraska, and others in the hearing room.

The committee is scheduled to meet again next week when a quorum of the seven member committee is expected to be present and take final action on Mrs. Lawson's appointment, before submitting it to the full Senate for ratification.

Although the nomination of Mrs. Lawson and Atty. Morris Miller, as chief judge of the court, was made more than a month ago, they had to be re-submitted again by the President because of a recent law requiring the President to submit his selections to the Senate for confirmation.

Mrs. Lawson who was born in 1912, is married to Belford Lawson, also a Washington attorney. A former social worker, she is a graduate of Columbia university and Terrell Law school, and the University of Michigan where she received her certificate in social work.