Mabel Dole Haden

Mabel Rebecca Dole Haden (1900s or 1910s – October 12, 2006) was an American lawyer. A native of the Piedmont region of Virginia, she became the first Black woman to obtain a Master of Laws degree from Georgetown University in 1956. She became one of the first Black woman lawyers in Washington, D.C., and she was co-founder and president of the Association of Black Women Attorneys. Biography Mabel Rebecca Dole Haden, the eighth of eleven children, was born (Joe Holley's Washington Post obituary states that Haden "was born near Lynch Station, Va., on Feb.) 17, 1909, or perhaps in 1904. (Census records are unclear, and she occasionally told people she was born in 1914.)"

She was one of the first Black women lawyers to practice in Washington, D.C. she was awarded the Washington Bar Association Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit.

She was also a poet, and one of her poems, "Black Hands", appeared on one of the ABWA's shirts. She also reportedly enjoyed music and dancing, with one particular artist of interest to her being Johnny Mathis.