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Bar Pro Bono Program Clinic Night D. Bar Pro Bono Program Pro-Se-Plus Divorce Clinic Law Foundation of Prince George's County, Inc., Lawyers for Children America (LFCA), The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia (LAS), Legal Counsel for the Elderly (LCE), Legal Services of Northern Virginia (LSNV), Maryland's Free Resource Center, Inc., Montgomery County Bar Foundation Free Program, The Washington Superior Court's Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Division, Homeless Legal Clinic (WLCH), Washington Homeless Legal Clinic (WLCH), Washington Homeless Legal Clinic, Inc., Women Empowered Against Violence, Inc. In 1946, after applying for membership 20 consecutive times, Rose Zetzer finally became the first woman to be admitted to the Maryland State Bar Association. Women were not admitted to the Maryland bar until nearly two hundred years later, when in 1902 Etta Haynie Maddox became the first woman to hold that position. Beginning with the inaugural course in 1992, the Select Committee and the Maryland State Bar Association submitted a curriculum on gender equity for the mandatory professionalism course for newcomers. The Franklyn Bourne Bar Association which is dedicated to the advancement of African-American lawyers (both men and women) in Prince George and Montgomery Counties. In 1946, the Women's Bar Association and other women's groups created the Maryland Committee for Women's Jury Service to combat the idea that jury service was incompatible with “the role of women in the home”.
Today, the number of women entering law school exceeds that of men and women lawyers have achieved positions of distinction in government, the judiciary and the private sector. For example, the Maryland State Bar Association's 26% Diversity Inclusion Committee has identified the underrepresentation of women in law firm associations in order to continue studying and taking action in this regard. The Committee's empirical approach complemented by a survey that showed that 85% of women were actually in favor of being juries in Maryland was critical to the success of the jury bill that passed the following year. In 1929 four members of the Women Bar Association (the forerunner of the Maryland Women's Bar Association) applied to be members of the Baltimore City Bar Association. The Alliance for example works to improve women lawyers of color providing opportunities to network advise young lawyers and law students and “grow professionally in a comfortable and collegial environment” says Alliance President Michelle K.Another group created to promote the professional development of African-American women lawyers was the Maryland Suburbs Black Women's Bar Association. During the 1940s and 1950s The Women's Bar Association supported women lawyers who sought to become Maryland's first women prosecutors and judges. Building on a legacy of exclusion first through admission to the Bar Association and then through membership in bar associations made up of men women lawyers eventually gained acceptance by forming their own groups and advocating for causes that affect women.
After the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment Maryland continued to deny women the right to participate in the judicial system through jury service.
