Viveca Monet Woods
Viveca Monet Woods was one of Nevada's first two African American female lawyers. In 1980, she and Johnnie B. Rawlinson became the first African American females admitted to practice law in Nevada. Woods later became the first African American woman to serve as an Assistant United States Attorney in Nevada.[1][2]
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- ^ Anderson, Rachel J. (2013). "Blacks in the Nevada Legal Profession". University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law.
- ^ Anderson, Rachel J. (February 2012). "Timeline of African-American Legal History in Nevada (1861-2011)".
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