Cleveland Law School
| Cleveland–Marshall College of Law | |
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| Established | 1897 |
| School type | Public |
| Dean | Lee Fisher (interim) |
| Location | Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Enrollment | 440 |
| Faculty | 75 |
| Website | www |
Cleveland–Marshall College of Law is the law school of Cleveland State University, located on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The school traces its origins to Cleveland Law School (founded in 1897) which merged in 1946 with the John Marshall School of Law (founded in 1916) to become Cleveland–Marshall College of Law. Cleveland–Marshall affiliated with Cleveland State University in 1969.
Cleveland Law School, founded in 1897, was Ohio's first evening law school and also the first to admit women. John Marshall School of Law was established by Cleveland attorneys, and classes began in 1916 in the New Guardian Building on Euclid Avenue. Following an affiliation with Ohio Northern University (1917–1923), Marshall received authorization to confer degrees under its own name. In 1946, the two Cleveland schools merged to form Cleveland–Marshall Law School. From 1963 to 1967, C-M maintained a nominal relationship with Baldwin–Wallace College. After regaining independent status, Cleveland–Marshall began its full-time legal education program. C-M became a state institution affiliated with Cleveland State University in 1969, becoming the Cleveland–Marshall College of Law, the largest law college in Ohio at the time.
Cleveland–Marshall has a rich history of integrating women and minorities into the American legal field, including Carl Stokes, the first African-American mayor of a major city in the U.S., Mary Grossman, the first woman in Ohio elected to a Municipal Court Bench as well as one of the first female members of the American Bar Association, Genevieve Cline, the first woman appointed to the U.S. federal bench, and Lillian Walker Burke, the first African-American female judge in Ohio. Louis Stokes, older brother of Carl and Ohio's first elected African American to the House of Representatives. Louis Stokes also argued the landmark United States Supreme Court case of Terry v. Ohio first in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, then the United State Supreme Court.
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