Wisconsin

MABEL WANDA 
RAIMEY

1898-1986

Mabel Raimey was the first
African-American woman attorney in
Wisconsin and the first to graduate
from the University of Wisconsin-
Madison (1918). She attended
Marquette University Law School
and was admitted to the Wisconsin
Bar in 1927. An original Milwaukee
Urban League Board member, Raimey 
was also a founder of the Northside
YWCA and Epsilon Kappa Omega
Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority, Inc. She was a trustee
of the West Allis Tabernacle
Baptist Church. The Milwaukee
Chapter of the National Association
of Black Women Attorneys is named
in her honor.

Erected 1998