About Pamela
How can a former juvenile delinquent foster kid make it from the streets to Cincinnati to graduate from Yale University, become a successful civil rights attorney and be the first democratically-elected District Attorney in Alameda County in 100 years? Pamela Y. Price graduated from Yale with a B.A. in Political Science in 1978. She came to California where she attended the University of Berkeley School of Law and received her law degree and a Masters degree in Jurisprudence & Social Policy in 1982. She was admitted to practice law in California in 1983 and went on to win numerous awards for her service to her community and her trailblazing work as a California Super Lawyer. She is one of a handful of Black women to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court. Pamela is a survivor of the Ohio juvenile justice and foster care systems.
Her Awards
2004 – 2025
San Francisco Magazine Northern California Super Lawyer
2022
Market Street Seventh-day Adventist Church Award of Recognition
2022
Alameda Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Member of the Year Award
2018
African American Policy Forum Pauli Murray Trailblazer Award
2017
Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition
2017
Assembly District 18 Woman of the Year
2017
Certificate of Special Supervisorial Recognition Contra Costa County
2016
Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition
2016
Certificate of Recognition from California State Assembly
2016
California State Senate Resolutions of Commendation
2016
National Lawyers Guild (S.F. Bay Area Chapter) Champion of Justice
2015
Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition
2015
Certificate of Recognition from California State Assembly
2015
BWOPA/TILE (Richmond-Contra Costa) Ella Hill Hutch Honoree
2012
NAACP (Hayward-South Alameda Chapter) Annual Service Award
2012
National ACLU Nine Most Influential Actors in Title IX’s History
2011
National Bar Association’s Heman Marion Sweatt Award
2010
California Association of Equal Rights Professionals Arthur A. Fletcher Award of Achievement
2009
F. Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Living The Dream Award
2005
Gamma Phi Delta Sorority Community Service Award-Excellence in Law
2004
San Francisco Magazine Northern California Super Lawyer Top 50 List
2003
Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition
2003
California Association of Equal Rights Professionals Founders Award of Achievement
2003
Flyaway Productions’ Ten Women Campaign Award
2002
California Association of Black Lawyers' 2002 Nominee for the ABA’s Margaret Brent Award
2002
California Lawyer Attorney of the Year in Employment (CLAY Award)
2001
Charles Houston Bar Association’s Clinton W. White Advocacy Award
1993
Charles Houston Bar Association’s Clinton W. White Advocacy Award
1992
Connecticut Women’s Education & Legal Fund Maria Miller Stewart Award
1980
BALSA George Benjamin Daniels Award for Community Service