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Florence Lucas ’39 (1915–1987)
Florence V. Lucas was among the earliest Black women graduates of Brooklyn Law School and, in February 1940, became the first Black woman admitted to the New York State Bar to practice law in Queens. That same year she joined the Queens County Women’s Bar Association as its first Black woman member. She later served as president of the Queens branch of the NAACP in the late 1950s and early 1960s and went on to become deputy commissioner of the New York State Division of Human Rights, where she helped revise the state’s human rights law and develop enforcement procedures. The Queens Daily Eagle has recognized her as a pioneering figure in Queens’s legal history.