Henry E. Quarles, Sr., born in Boston in 1906, and a graduate of Suffolk Law School in 1928, is considered 'The Dean' of Black lawyers in Boston. He holds the distinction of having the longest legal career - 61 years of practice as an attorney - in Boston. He received an Honorary Doctor of Law from Suffolk in 1979 and was the first Black lawyer to appear in courts in cities and towns outside of Boston and in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.