1988 - First Black Female Tenure-Track Professor, Margaret Spencer

Authors

Margaret Spencer

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Description

Photograph of Margaret Spencer. When she joins the faculty in 1988, Professor Spencer becomes the first Black female tenure-track professor. After teaching for six years, Spencer left the faculty to accept an appointment to the General District Court in the City of Richmond. Later elevated to the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond in 1998, she became the first female Circuit Court judge in central Virginia.

Publication Date

1988

Keywords

Black History, Black Lawyers, Black Professors

Comments

**Photograph only**

Recommended Citation

Spencer, Margaret, "1988 - First Black Female Tenure-Track Professor, Margaret Spencer" (1988). Black History at W&M Law. 9.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/blackhistorywmls/9