July 04, (THEWILL) – Ime Umanah, the 24-year-old daughter of the late Akwa Ibom State politician, Ime Sampson Umanah, has emerged the first black woman President of the prestigious Havard Law Review in what has been described as a milestone in the 130-year history of the American institution.
Ime Umanah, who hails from Abak Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State and lives in the United States grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She’s a joint degree candidate at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Chosen by the Harvard Law Review’s 92 student editors in what is widely considered the highest-ranked position that a student can have at the cut-throat Law School, Umanah is the first African-American woman to lead a journal that has the largest reach of any law journal in the world. Reports say that the difficult election process which led to her emergence required a thorough dissection of her work and application, and a 12-hour long deliberation of her portfolio.
The first black man to be elected president was Barack Obama 27 years ago and it has been 41 years since the first woman, Susan Estrich, was elected.
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