MISSION STATEMENTThurgood Marshall Bar Association is a contemporary bar association committed to connect, support, and increase the Black legal community in Orange County. TMBA strives to promote diversity, professional improvement, and the advancement of justice through positive community involvement and excellence in the practice of law for the Black legal community, allies, and the community at large. |
Part of Thurgood Marshall’s legacy is the recognition that no ethnic, social or cultural group is valued above any other. Thurgood Marshall Bar Association’s membership reflects this commitment to diversity and multiculturalism.
Thurgood Marshall Bar AssociationThurgood Marshall Bar Association emphasizes excellence and integrity in the practice of law, increased diversity, multi-culturalism and community service. Diversity and equality form the core of the American landscape. Unlike most other nations, both past and present, America boasts of its tolerance, and promotes itself as a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation. Though diversity and equality form the core of our representative democracy, our journey to a more perfect union that fully realizes the legal, political and social benefits of these principles continues. As we seek to further our journey toward increased inclusiveness, diversity and equality, Thurgood Marshall Bar Association also seeks to honor our namesake, who devoted his professional life to realizing those principles. Thurgood Marshall Bar Association is an affiliate of the Orange County Bar Association. |
| Thurgood MarshallThurgood Marshall was the 96th Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Marshall was the Court’s first African-American Justice on the United States Supreme Court. Even before his appointment to the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall made a lasting contributions to civil rights jurisprudence through his advocacy. For example, he was lead attorney in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark decision that abolished the archaic standard of “separate but equal” by holding that that laws requiring racial separation are inherently unequal. Thurgood Marshall led the way to a new jurisprudence which to this day can be used to defend the rights of those who have traditionally received “the short end of the stick.” Numerous individuals, from all walks of life, have benefitted from Thurgood Marshall’s efforts to increase access to the American dream of equality and fairness. Women, persons of all races, ethnicities and religious backgrounds, and other persons traditionally less included, are now more included in our society, and our profession, because of the efforts of Thurgood Marshall. We are proud to bear his name. |
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