What happened around this time in FBA’s history? See below for some pretty cool tidbits.       

• Dec. 2, 1943: First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt addresses the FBA’s weekly luncheon meeting, which sold out its capacity of 150 tickets weeks in advance. Speaking of her recent trip to visit U.S. troops fighting in the South Pacific, she tells her audience: “It is the obligation of those at home to justify sacrifices being made on the battlefronts by energetically working for an early victory and a lasting peace which will provide an education and a job for the men returning to civilian life.”

• Dec. 12, 1922: FBA holds its first banquet at Rauscher’s, an elegant French institution in downtown D.C. Speakers include U.S. Sen. Thomas Sterling, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Mable Walker Willebrandt, and Walter McCoy, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

• Dec. 18, 1991: In honor of the 200th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, the FBA holds a “town meeting” at Philadelphia’s Congress Hall, where the foundational document was ratified on Dec. 15, 1791. As part of the program — which is videotaped and later distributed to FBA chapters as well as high school civics teachers throughout the country — local high school students discuss the Bill of Rights with an expert panel of attorneys and judges.

• December 1966: The FBA announces the creation of a Speakers Bureau, through which expert members will appear as guest speakers at FBA chapter events.

What happened around this time in FBA’s history? See below for some pretty cool tidbits.

• Nov. 27, 1963: At its monthly meeting, the FBA’s National Council passes a resolution in memory of President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated five days before. In part the resolution notes that Kennedy “has by his devotion, courage, and determination set for us, as lawyers and as servants or former servants of the general government, an example which will continue to urge us toward these goals through all the time which can be foreseen.”

• November 1977: The FBA holds its annual convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico — for the first time staging the meeting outside the continental United States. Originally scheduled for Sept. 26–Oct. 1, the meeting was postponed due to the murder of General Convention Chair and former FBA Puerto Rico Chapter President Alan H. Randall, who was shot and killed outside his home on Sept. 22.

What happened around this time in FBA’s history? See below for some pretty cool tidbits.

• In November of 1935 the FBA established weekly luncheons to give members more opportunities to network and trade insights.

• In November 1939, all U.S. Supreme Court justices and U.S. Court of Appeals judges were named honorary members of FBA.

• In November of 1953, the FBA increased its annual member dues to $8.