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This website provides information for participants in the H.U.S.L. Bar Mentors Program. Howard University School of Law is the alma mater of our namesake, J. Franklyn Bourne, Class of 1948. This program allows volunteers from the bar to interact with graduating law students in need of guidance during the bar preparation phase.

This is a collaborative effort between the Howard University School of Law, and two National Bar Association affiliates, the Black Women's Bar Association of Suburban Maryland and the J. Franklyn Bounre Bar Association. Howard University School of Law has a storied history with the National Bar Association which was created, in large part, by the efforts of Charles Hamilton Houston in 1925. Houston, mentor to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, was Dean of the lawschool and is recognized as the architect of the nationwide litigation which led to the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education. J. Franklyn Bourne was very involved in efforts to realize the promise of Brown in Prince George's County, Maryland. To be sure, without passing a bar examination, we would not benefit from the work of both attorneys Charles Hamilton Houston and J. Franklyn Bourne. Therefore, the HUSL Bar Mentors Program harkens to JFB's Mission to insure the continuation of African-Americans in the legal profession.

With
Howard U. Sch. of Law
&
Black Women's Bar Association of Suburban Maryland

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Sharon V. Burrell
President
Robin D. Bright
Treasurer
Shondriette D. Kelley
Recording Secretary
Shelley Johnson
Corresponding Secretary
Abigale Bruce Watson
President-Elect
William A. Snoddy
Immediate Past President
Keith A. Parris
Executive Officer
J. Wyndal Gordon
Executive Officer