Senior US lawyer speaks on elderly
the National Council on the Aging will be guest speaker at an Age Concern seminar at Cathedral Hall today.
Mrs. Frankie Muse Freeman of the St. Louis law firm of Whitfield, Montgomery and Staples, has been an estates and federal courts lawyer for more than 40 years.
She has served as general counsel of the St. Louis Housing Authority. US President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated her as the first female commissioner of the US Commission on Civil Rights and she remained in the post for 16 years, reappointed by Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter.
In July 1980, she was appointed inspector general of the Community Services Administration.
She is currently commissioner of the American Bar Association's Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly.
See today's newspaper for more information on the day-long seminar.