Old Dominion Bar Association
About Old Dominion Bar Association
Statewide Bar Association whose members are dedicated to preserving and promoting its mission of being "Virginia's Advocates for Equal Justice”.
Spawned from the need to confront a policy that offended personal and professional dignity, from the need for African-American lawyers to associate for personal and professional growth, and from a need to encourage African-American lawyers to participate in the Virginia State Bar, the ODBA grew into an organization that filled not only those particular needs but one that also has provided continuity of leadership and support with respect to the various concerns of particular interest to African Americans and other people of color. For example, over the past thirty years, ODBA members diligently, and successfully, worked to ensure the appointment of African-American lawyers to judgeships
around the state.
The names and faces have changed over the years, but the ODBA is has remained strong in its resolve to be Virginia’s
advocate for equal justice.