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...Motley later became Chief Judge of the court and served on the bench for the remainder of her life...
Motley’s granddaughter, Hannah R. Motley ’09, recalled in an e-mail to The Crimson a homework assignment that she did on Dr. King when she was eight years old: “I asked [my grandmother] if she knew him, and she chuckled. ‘Knew him? I used to have to go down there to that awful jailhouse and try to help...
Between 1964 and 1966, Motley became the first African-American woman elected to the New York State Senate, the first African-American woman elected to serve as Manhattan Borough President, and the first African-American woman appointed to the federal judiciary...
After former U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy ’48 proposed Motley for the judiciary, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated her to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on January...
...Judge Motley earned her undergraduate degree from New York University and her law degree from Columbia Law School...