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
PO Box 1367
Raleigh, NC 27602
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