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Sept. 26, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Salaz
303/837-3633
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Two Denver judges to be honored as Sam Cary Bar Association founders
Group to celebrate 35-year anniversary
The Sam Cary Bar Association will honor two Denver judges during agala dinner celebrating 35 years since the organization’s founding. Raymond D. Jones, a former Denver county court judge, Denverdistrict court judge and Colorado Court of Appeals judge, and Denver County Court Judge Alfred Harrell were among the founders of the Sam Cary Bar Association. They will be recognized along with seven other original organizers on Oct. 28, 2006, at the DenverMarriottTechCenter.
Jones retired from the Colorado Court of Appeals in 2003. He served as a Denvercounty court judge from 1977 to 1979 and as a Denverdistrict court judge from 1979 to 1987. He was appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals in 1988. Jones also was a deputy district attorney and a lawyer in private practice before he became a judge. He received his law degree from Harvard University School of Law in 1971.
Harrell was appointed to the Denvercounty court bench in 1985. Prior to his appointment, he was in private law practice in Denver. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado and graduated from the University of Denver College of Law in 1971.
Other founding members who will be recognized during the event are Marilyn Cason, Norman Early, Gary Jackson, Phillip Jones, Billy Lewis, Daniel E. Muse and the late King Trimble.
The Sam Cary Bar Association (SCBA) was formed in September of 1971, in order to create a self-help group to instill professionalism and serve as a vehicle for the exchange of ideas among African-American lawyers. When the SCBA was formed in 1971, there were fewer than 15 African-American attorneys practicing law in Colorado. The initial membership meetings were held in members’homes and in their law offices. Presently, there are more than 200 African-American attorneys in Colorado. The organization is named for Samuel Eddy Cary, who became Colorado’s first African-American attorney in 1919. He died in 1961 at the age of 74.
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