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Subject: Patricia Harris, HUD/Health Secretary
Category: Relationships and Society > Government
Asked by: halphillips-ga
List Price: $2.00
Posted: 30 May 2005 15:08 PDT
Expires: 29 Jun 2005 15:08 PDT
Question ID: 527415
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?
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Subject: Re: Patricia Harris, HUD/Health Secretary
Answered By: rainbow-ga on 30 May 2005 15:40 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
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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I hope this is helpful. If you have any questions regarding my answer
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Best regards,
Rainbow
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