By Darla Shelden, Metropolis Sentinel Reporter –OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Metropolis Affiliation of Black Legal professionals (ABL) awarded the Melvin Combs Jr. Memorial Scholarship on Might 4, 2023, to 3 third-year legislation college students. The Oklahoma Metropolis Affiliation of Black Legal professionals consists of African-American attorneys and judges all through the Oklahoma Metropolis space.
This 12 months’s scholarship recipients are Joshua D. Hillard (Oklahoma Metropolis College Faculty of Legislation), Sara N. Franco (The College of Oklahoma Faculty of Legislation), and Jon Paul Ray (The College of Tulsa Faculty of Legislation).
Every recipient acquired scholarship funds to help with bills associated to taking the bar examination in Oklahoma.
The scholarship is known as after the late legal professional Melvin Combs Jr. (July 17, 1941 ~ December 26, 2023) who, devoted a part of his authorized profession to tutoring African-American legislation college students, serving to greater than 100 college students put together for and move the Oklahoma Bar Examination with out looking for compensation or recognition.
The Melvin Combs Jr. Memorial Scholarship was made potential by way of donations from ABL members and McAfee & Taft Legislation Agency.
Melvin Comb, Jr. was the recipient of the Oklahoma Bar Affiliation (OBA) Trailblazer Award for making a profound affect on the authorized occupation by paving the best way for extra African American legislation college students to move the bar examination. He didn’t move the bar examination on his first try within the early Seventies, and he was decided to ensure that different African American legislation college students had been ready to take and move the bar.
Combs, together with Herbert Graves and William Sullivan shaped the primary built-in legislation agency in Oklahoma in 1974.
Often called the “Godfather” amongst his friends, Combs started utilizing the agency’s legislation library at evening and on the weekends throughout his years of mentoring younger legislation college students
Melvin and his daughter Lori Combs practiced legislation collectively for over 20 years within the Oklahoma Metropolis space.
A graduate of the College of Oklahoma Faculty of Pharmacy, Combs earned a Bachelor diploma in Chemistry from Central State College, in addition to receiving his Juris Doctorate Diploma from Oklahoma Metropolis College.
The Oklahoma Metropolis Affiliation of Black Legal professionals was based in 1980 and is a neighborhood service group dedicated to serving the wants of the African-American neighborhood by way of activism, comradery, schooling, and inspiration.
The Oklahoma Metropolis ABL is the official Oklahoma affiliate chapter of the Nationwide Bar Affiliation. For extra info, go to the Oklahoma Metropolis Affiliation of Black Legal professionals Fb web page.
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