The Honorable Frankie M. Freeman, who served from 1976 to 1992, is a history-making attorney and civil rights reformer. She has served as a political appointee of four U.S. Presidents: Lyndon B. Johnson, who nominated her as the first woman to serve as a commissioner of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter, who subsequently reappointed her. She served as a commissioner for sixteen years, and later as inspector general for the Community Services Administration during the Carter Administration. She has extensive experience in the areas of housing, civil and probate law, and civil rights, and has represented individuals and corporations, not-for-profit organizations and municipal agencies in state and federal courts.