Jane Cleo Marshall Lucas (1920-2013) was the first African American female to pass the Maryland bar exam.
[1][2] Lucas was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, in June 1920 to Edson S. and Angelina (Lina) Marshall.
Marshall achieved another historical first the same year by becoming the first female full-time faculty member of Howard University School of Law.
Thus, due to Lucas becoming an educator, Juanita Jackson Mitchell has the distinction of becoming the first African American female to actually practice law in Maryland in 1950.
[6] Lucas resigned from the faculty in 1950, and eventually settled with her husband permanently in the Washington, D.C., area.