MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Five attorneys have been inducted to the Alabama Lawyers’ Hall of Fame.
The lawyers honored Friday by the Alabama State Bar include the late U.S. District Judge Seybourn Harris Lynne of Birmingham, who blocked efforts by then-Gov. George C. Wallace to prevent the integration of the University of Alabama in 1963.
Lynne was the nation’s longest-serving federal judge at the time of his death in 2000.
Other new members include Maud McLure Kelly, who became the first woman to practice law in Alabama in 1908, and William Dowdle Denson. Denson prosecuted Nazi war criminals after World War II.
Also recognized were former Mobile Bar Association president T. Massey Bedsole, who died in 2011, and Marion Augustus Baldwin, who was elected state attorney general in 1847 and served 18 years.
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