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Margaret Burnham was born on 28 December, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S., is an American lawyer and academic (born 1944). Discover Margaret Burnham's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 28 December, 1944
Birthday 28 December
Birthplace Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1944

Margaret A. Burnham (born December 28, 1944) is an American lawyer and academic who is a professor at the Northeastern University School of Law and the founder of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project.

She is a Senate-confirmed nominee to be a member of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.

Burnham was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1944.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Tougaloo College and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Burnham's legal practice included serving as an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

1970

In 1970, Burnham worked with CPUSA lawyer John Abt to defend Angela Davis, her friend since childhood, and later wrote the foreword to Abt's memoir.

1977

In 1977, she became the first female African American Judge in Massachusetts, serving as an Associate Justice of the Boston Municipal Court until 1982.

2008

In 2008, she was one of the lawyers in a landmark federal lawsuit against Franklin County, Mississippi for their law-enforcement agents' involvement in the 1964 Ku Klux Klan kidnapping, torture and killing of two 19-year-olds, Henry Dee and Charles Eddie Moore.

On June 11, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Burnham to be a member of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.

The Senate's Homeland Security committee held hearings on Burnham's nomination on January 13, 2022.

The committee favorably reported her nomination on February 2, 2022.

Burnham was officially confirmed by the entire Senate via voice vote on February 17, 2022.

Burnham has authored and coauthored numerous articles; and one book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, which received a positive review in The New York Times.

The book also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History in 2022.

Burnham's father was Louis E. Burnham, an activist and journalist.

Her sister, Linda Burnham, is also an activist and journalist.

Her brother, Charles Burnham, is a violinist and composer.

She is also related to Forbes Burnham, the second president of Guyana.