From left, President of the Black Law Student Association, Lecia Wright; Creighton School of Law Dean Marianne B. Culhane; the honoree's wife, Tommie Hardwick, Esq.; and Pittman Award Recipient Judge Johnny Hardwick posed for pictures after Hardwick's address to guests at the ceremony. Creighton's Pittman Award Goes
To Alabama Judge Johnny Hardwick By James Barnes
The Daily Record In 1948 President Harry Truman issued the executive order desegregating the United States military. That same year, Elizabeth D. Pittman put her stamp on history by becoming the first African-American graduate of Creighton Law School paving the way to her becoming the first African-American Judge in the state of Nebraska.
