What law firm did Patricia Roberts Harris work for in the 1970s, prior
to becoming the secretary of housing and urban development under
President Carter?

Hi halphillips,

Patricia Roberts Harris was a partner in the law firm Fried, Frank,
Harris, Shriver & Kampelman in Washington DC.


"1970-1977 Partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman, Washington, D.C."

Papers of Patricia Harris
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2001/ms001021.pdf (page 4)

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"Patricia Roberts Harris became the first African-American woman to
attain a cabinet-level appointment in 1977, when President Carter
nominated her Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Before her
cabinet career, she had been a trial lawyer in the US Department of
Justice, a professor and dean of Howard University School of Law, and
a partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman. She was also
the first African-American woman ambassador (to Luxembourg,
1965?1967), the first African-American woman to serve in the United
Nations, and the first African-American woman on the boards of
directors of IBM, Scott Paper Company, and Chase Manhattan Bank. Her
trail-blazingachievements were honored with the issuance of a postage
stamp bearing her image in February 2000."

Top Government Appointees - Where Are They Now?
American Bar Association
http://www.abanet.org/women/guyol.pdf

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"Beckwith, 55, started working in trusts and estates as an associate
at the D.C. office of what was then Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver &
Kampelman. There, he worked with Patricia Roberts Harris, who soon
left to become secretary of housing and urban development in President
Jimmy Carter?s administration..."

Baker & Hostetler
http://www.bakerlaw.com/files/tbl_s10News%5CFileUpload44%5C10105%5CLegal%20Times%209-27-04.pdf


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