About Charlotte Pfeiffer
Articles written by Charlotte Pfeiffer
Corliss in Charge
For as long as she can remember, Corliss Scroggins Lawson dreamed of being a lawyer. Even when her life presented challenges, such as getting married and having a child at 16, she kept her eye on her goal. Finally, when she was 26, in 1989 — despite having two children to raise and working full-time — she went for it. She enrolled in law school at Vanderbilt University. Today, at the age of 42, Lawson is the first African American to head an Atlanta office of a national law firm. In June …
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