Denise M. Mercherson is Utah’s first African American female lawyer.[1]
Mercherson was raised in the Hyde Park community on the South Side, Chicago. She received her psychology degree from Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota and earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Utah College of Law in Salt Lake City, Utah.[2] On September 26, 1979, she became the first African American female admitted to practice law in Utah.[1] By 1986, Mercherson returned to Chicago to set up her own law practice.[2][3] During the 1990s, she began working as a volunteer tutor at South Loop Elementary School.[2]
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edit- ^ a b "State Bar News: Utah Minority Bar Association First 50 Event" (PDF). Utah Bar Journal. July–August 2005.
- ^ a b c Tribune, Jim Sulski Special to the (13 October 1999). "TUTOR AT SOUTH LOOP MAKING A DIFFERENCE". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2019-09-04.
- ^ CBA Record. Chicago Bar Association. 1998.