Winston Salem Event Honors Annie Brown Kennedy

Lillian's List held "2006 Election Countdown and Legislative Legacies", an event honoring former Representative Annie Brown Kennedy, on September 21 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.at the Winston-Salem home of North Carolina Secretary of the Department of Cultural Resources Lisbeth C.(Libba) Evans.

This was an opportunity to meet our 2006 recommended candidates, to offer critically needed financial support to those candidates,and to honor a woman who has been a trailblazer in the very finest sense of that word.

Kennedy, who has an undergraduate degree from Spelman College and a law degree from Howard University,moved to North Carolina from Georgia with her husband in 1953 then passed the North Carolina bar and began practicing law here the following year. She was only the second African American woman to practice law in North Carolina; later she became the first African American woman to serve in the North Carolina General Assembly.

Her list of firsts does not end there. Kennedy was the first woman elected president of the Forsyth County Bar Association and the first African American attorney inducted into the North Carolina Bar Association'sHall of fame.Her list of prestigious honors and awards is long and suitably impressive. She is a partner in the Winston-Salem firm Kennedy,Kennedy, Kennedy and Kennedy, L.L.P.,where she and her husband practice law with two of their three sons.

Lillian's List is proud to honor Annie Brown Kennedy for her commitment to equity issues and tireless work on behalf of women, African Americans, and children.

For information about these or any events, contact Lillian's List at:
(919) 834-9008
kim@lillianslist.org
304 East Jones Street
Raleigh, NC 27601