From Power to Service:  The Story of Lawyers in Alabama

Written by attorney-author Pat Boyd Rumore.  This hardcover book, filled with pictures, many of which were not previously published, is the ideal gift!

The story of lawyers in the developing history of Alabama opens in Mississippi Territory days with the appointment by President Thomas Jefferson of the first territorial judge in St. Stephens, the earliest settlement in what would become Alabama, and continues to present day Alabama, where the profession has grone to more than 16,000 members.

In these pages you will read about the people who pioneered Alabama's legal profession.  The history of the profession in this state comes alive as Pat Rumore tells the Bar's story in the words of those who shaped it.  It's a story of lawyers who ended radical reconstruction and founded the state bar.  It's a story of federal jurists who helped to end the segregated "southern way of life" by their decisions brought by some of the state's great civil liberties lawyers.  It's alo a story about women in the profession and how their achievements have paved way for a new generation of lawyers.

Publication of the book is co-sponsored by the History and Archives Committee of the Alabama State Bar and the Alabama Bench and Bar Historical Society.  Proceeds from the sale of this book go to the Bench  and Bar Historical Society.