LC control no. | n 99032751 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | McDonald, Gabrielle Kirk |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 19420412 |
Place of birth | Saint Paul (Minn.) |
Affiliation | Howard University NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Thurgood Marshall School of Law University of Texas at Austin United States. District Court (Texas : Southern District) International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 |
Profession or occupation | Lawyers Judges Law teachers |
Found in | Substantive and procedural aspects of international ... 1999: CIP t.p. (Gabrielle Kirk McDonald) African American National Biography, accessed March 03, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (McDonald, Gabrielle Kirk; jurist, judge, educator; born 12 April 1942 in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States; received the Kappa Beta Pi Legal Sorority Award for Academic Excellence and an award for best oral argument and graduated first in her class at Howard law school (1966); was staff attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF); founded McDonald and McDonald, a law firm in Houston, Texas; taught at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University (1970) and (1975-1977) and at the University of Texas at Austin (1978); President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas (1979); served on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY); human rights adviser to Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc.) |