1. Nina Miglionico was an American lawyer and clubwoman in Birmingham, Alabama.
18 Facts About Nina Miglionico
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Nina Miglionico was the first woman to serve on the Birmingham City Council, where she held a seat from 1963 to 1985.
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Nina Miglionico's parents were both born in Italy, and ran a delicatessen.
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Nina Miglionico attended Howard College, graduating in 1933.
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Nina Miglionico earned her law degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1936, one of five women in her graduating class.
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In 1958, Nina Miglionico was elected president of the National Association of Women Lawyers.
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Nina Miglionico served on the tax committee of the American Bar Association.
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Nina Miglionico ran for the Birmingham School Board in 1958.
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Nina Miglionico was the first woman to serve on the Birmingham City Council, a seat she held for over twenty years, from 1963 to 1985.
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Nina Miglionico worked against the poll tax and child labor, and for prison reform, and food safety.
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Nina Miglionico was targeted several times with violent warnings for her work on civil rights and women's rights.
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In 1963, Nina Miglionico was named Birmingham Woman of the Year.
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Nina Miglionico was inducted into the Alabama Lawyers' Hall of Fame in 2011, and the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 2012.
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Nina Miglionico's papers are collected at the Birmingham Public Library and the law library at the University of Alabama.
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The Women Lawyers Section of the Birmingham Bar Association presents a Nina Miglionico "Paving the Way" Award.
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The first recipient of the Nina Miglionico Award was judge Inge Prytz Johnson, in 2006.
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In 2016, a documentary, Stand Up, Speak Out: The Nina Miglionico Story was released.
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In 2020, Nina Miglionico was featured in a virtual exhibit to mark the centennial of women's suffrage in Alabama.