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McDonald, Gabrielle Kirk

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Personal name headingMcDonald, Gabrielle Kirk
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date19420412
Place of birthSaint Paul (Minn.)
AffiliationHoward 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 occupationLawyers Judges Law teachers
Found inSubstantive 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.)