On June 1, 2016, the Washington Bar Association (WBA) installed Alfreda Robinson, Associate Dean for Trial Advocacy, Professorial Lecturer in Law, and Co-Director of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program, as a member of its Board of Directors.
”It is a tremendous honor to become a Director of the Washington Bar Association, and I look forward to working with the WBA’s extraordinary Officers and Directors," said Associate Dean Robinson.
Prior to the announcement, Associate Dean Robinson was a member of the WBA for decades. During that time she founded and chaired the WBA and George Washington University Annual Military Award Luncheon and received three WBA Presidential Awards for Outstanding Service.
The Washington Bar Association was founded in 1925 by a group of prominent African American attorneys, including renowned civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston, who played a critical role in nearly every civil rights case before the United States Supreme Court between 1930 and Brown v. Board of Education (1954). The organization seeks to enhance the legal profession and its members, advance the administration of justice, improve the standards of legal education, and encourage legal research and excellence consistent with the philosophy of Houstonian Jurisprudence.