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Hillsborough County Bar Association & National Bar Association
Hillsborough County Bar Association was started in 1896 and currently it has more than three thousand, seven hundred members (Hillsborough County Bar Association, 2000). In the beginning, the association was started for the purposes of serving the community. When it was started, it was registered under the non-profit making professional associational. The association deals with attorneys, the government, attorneys from the corporate society, judges and even student members. HCBA is an organization that unites all legal professionals to be ethical and professional. When the association was initiated, it did not limit the number or type of members who were going to join. According to the history of HCBA, the first president to be elected by the association was Joseph B. Wall who led for two years consecutively. However, the current president is Pedro, F. Bajo, Jr. The mission of this association was to promote and encourage respect for the judicial and law systems. It did this by serving the community professionally. Attorneys were advised to join this association because it was free to become a member, and there were many benefits to be enjoyed by the member. These benefits were extremely helpful in a member’s career (HCBA, 2000).
Hillsborough County Bar Association was first located in Tampa, Florida where it still is located today. In the beginning, the association was started to serve the people of Tampa, Florida before spreading to the other states in America. The founders of the associations in 1896 saw that there was a need to improve the profession to the members of the public as way of serving the community. In this case, the association did not charge for their services to the public. Therefore, their main aim of forming the association was to serve the community freely as they aim to improve the quality of professionalism in the profession.
The national bar association was formed in the 1925 as the Negro Bar Association, after the founders were denied membership into the American Bar Association. It was located in Des Moines, IOWA (Denise, Adrienne. 2010). The main founders of the association were Gertrude H. Woodson, S. Joe Brown Charles P. Howard, Sr. and James B Morris. These members were denied entry into the American Bar Association and as a result, they formed the National Bar Association formerly the Negro Bar Association. At this time in America, there was a lot of discrimination and the black people were being considered as second-class citizens. In this case, they were not allowed to join most of the associations at that time.
The main aim of the association was to allow the black people who were interested in the profession to join. Additionally, they wanted the black people to join a place where they will not be discriminated and yet they had the same knowledge as the whites. This means that the membership of the association was only limited to the African-Americans only. It used to represent the African American attorneys but after the law that scrapped of discrimination was introduced, the association changed its name from the Negro Bar Association to National Bar Association (Denise, Adrienne. 2010).
It is worth noting that both Hillsborough County Bar Association and National Bar Association were formed as non-profit making professional associations aimed at serving the community. In this case, they tried to improve the profession by educating both their members and the community at large about the law. Since, the inception of the two Associations, they have increased their dominance in the whole of United States of America with affiliate Associations and firms, which they formed to reach out to the people. However, in the early 1930s soon after the formation of the National Bar Association, the members mobilized themselves for the purposes of liberating the black people. All through the years, the two Associations have come to gain respect in the whole of America due to their tight principles of professionalism.
Reference:
Denise, Adrienne. (2010). Black History Information: The National Bar Association. University of Louisville. Retrieved from: http://www.law.louisville.edu/node/4479
Hillsborough County Bar Association. (2000). The Bulletin of the Hillsborough County Bar Association. Tampa, Fla.: Hillsborough County Bar Association.
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