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2010 Black History Month: Allie Latimer, Attorney, Humanitarian Activist
“You have to think about yourself, because no one wakes up in the moring with you on their mind.”~Attorney Allie Latimer
Allie Latimer is a living American shero who counts among her many educational, civic and professional achievements, the fact she is the founder of the national organization Federally Employed Women (FEW).
FEW is an advocacy group established in 1968 to improve the status of women employed by the Federal government and by the District of Columbia government.Membership in this group has never been limited to simply females executives working in government. In fact the first National Treasurer was a male Lieutenant Colonel who could identify with the plight of women because of the situations he faced as a southerner. He worked with FEW until he was reassigned.
Attorney Latimer, a graduate of Hampton Institute, now Hampton University; with a law degree from Howard University School of Law, also holds an advanced research law degree, LL.M, from Catholic University. Allie Latimer earned both a Master of Divinity (M. Div.) degree and Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) from Howard University.
Allie Latimer had attended college in North Carolina for a time before transferring to Virginia’s historic Hampton Institute. She returned to the state to practice law for a time.
Following her work in private practice in North Carolina Allie Latimer joined the federal GSA during the early 1970s as an Assistant General Counsel. In 2005 the State Of North Carolina recognized her legal work there and elsewhere
Ms Latimer organized the initially grassroots organization, along with June Chewning and Florence Perman. After convincing several of those with whom she worked the first chapter of the advocacy group was established in Washington, D.C. Today there are more than 200 FEW chapters. when she, herself was employed by the General Services Administration (GSA).
In 1976 she left the General Services Administration in order to serve in the position of an Assistant General Counsel.
It was in 1977 Attorney Allie Latimer returned to the GSA as the first African American female to serve in the post of General Counsel of a major agency. Ms Latimer worked in that post until 1987 when she moved on to serve as Special Counsel for Ethics and Civil Rights at GSA. She was Special Counsel for eight years leaving the position in 1995.
Allie Latimer has received numerous awards for her humanitarian contributions and her legal achievements.
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