Inez C. Fields, a native of Hampton, Virginia, became one of the first known black women to become a second-generation lawyer.
[1] She graduated from Boston University School of Law in 1922[2] and became the second black woman admitted to the Massachusetts bar on April 15, 1924.
[3] Fields did not remain in Massachusetts, but instead returned to Virginia, where she joined her father's law firm in Hampton.
[5] Joining Marian Poe and Bertha Douglass, Inez was one of three black women practicing law in Virginia between the late 1920s and 1960.
[7] George Washington Fields, who had been blind since 1896, graduated from Cornell University Law School in 1890.