Margaret Burnham

Margaret A. Burnham (an haife ta a ranar 28 ga Disamba, 1944)  name="masshist"> lauya ce 'yar Amurka kuma mai ilimi. Ita ce Farfesa a fannin Shari'a a Jami'a a Makarantar Shari'a ta Jami'ar Northeastern, wacce ta kafa Aikin Haƙƙoƙin Bil'adama da Maido da Shari'a, kuma wacce ta kafa Taskar Dijital ta Burnham-Nobles.  Ita ce kuma Darakta a Fannin Shari'a na Cibiyar Shari'a, Daidaito da Kabila (CLEAR).  Ita memba ce a Hukumar Binciken Rikodin Rikodin Shari'o'in Haƙƙoƙin Bil'adama .

 Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
An haifi Burnham a ranar 28 ga Disamba, 1944, a Birmingham, Alabama, ga masu fafutuka Louis E. Burnham da Dorothy Burnham ( née Challenor). 'Yar uwarta, Linda Burnham, ita ma ƙwararriya ce kuma 'yar jarida, kuma ɗan'uwanta, Charles Burnham, ƙwararre ne a fannin goge da waƙa. Tana da alaƙa da Forbes Burnham, shugaban Guyana na biyu. 

Ta sami digirin farko a fannin fasaha a tarihi daga Kwalejin Tougaloo da kuma digirin farko a fannin shari'a daga Makarantar Shari'a ta Jami'ar Pennsylvania . 

 Sana'a 
Aikin lauya na Burnham ya haɗa da yin aiki a matsayin lauya tare da Asusun Kare Shari'a na NAACP . "The Honorable Margaret A. Burnham". The Massachusetts Historical Society. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
In 1970, Burnham worked with Communist Party USA lawyer John Abt to defend Angela Davis, her friend since childhood, and later wrote the foreword to Abt's memoir.

A shekarar 1977, Burnham ta zama mace 'yar asalin Amurka ta farko da ta zama alkali a Massachusetts, inda ta yi aiki a matsayin mataimakiyar alkali a Kotun Gundumar Boston har zuwa 1982. "The Honorable Margaret A. Burnham". The Massachusetts Historical Society. Retrieved September 18, 2020.

A shekarar 2008, Burnham yana ɗaya daga cikin lauyoyin da suka shigar da ƙarar da ta fi muhimmanci a kan Franklin County, Mississippi saboda hannun jami'an tsaro a cikin satar Ku Klux Klan, azabtarwa da kisan wasu matasa 'yan shekara 19, Henry Dee da Charles Eddie Moore a shekarar 1964.

A ranar 11 ga Yuni, 2021, Shugaba Joe Biden ya naɗa Burnham a matsayin memba na Hukumar Binciken Bayanan Laifukan Jama'a ta 'Yancin Dan Adam.  Kwamitin Tsaron Cikin Gida na Majalisar Dattawa ya gudanar da zaman sauraren ra'ayoyin jama'a kan naɗin Burnham a ranar 13 ga Janairu, 2022. Kwamitin ya bayar da rahoton zaɓenta mai kyau a ranar 2 ga Fabrairu, 2022. Majalisar Dattawa ta amince da Burnham a hukumance ta hanyar ƙuri'ar amincewa da ita a ranar 17 ga Fabrairu, 2022. 

Burnham ta rubuta kuma ta rubuta labarai da dama tare;  da kuma littafi guda ɗaya, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners,  wanda ke nazarin tarihin tashin hankali mai kisan kai a lokacin zamanin Jim Crow. Littafinta ya sami bita mai kyau a cikin The New York Times,  The New York Review of Books,  kuma ya lashe kyautar littafin Los Angeles Times for History a 2022.  Ta kuma lashe kyautar Hillman ta 2023 don aikin jarida na littattafai, da kuma kyautar Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. By Hands Now Known ta kasance wacce ta zo ta ƙarshe a gasar Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction ta 2022, kuma an sanya mata suna a matsayin Mafi Kyawun Littafin Shekara ta The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Kirkus Reviews, Chicago Public Library, da Publishers Weekly . 

 Duba kuma 

 Jerin Masu Shari'ar Bakar fata
 Jerin lauyoyi da alkalai mata na farko a Massachusetts

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Rayayyun mutane
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1944