She challenged a proposed two-year suspension after being named in an ethics grievance and won on appeal, but that didn’t stop Tucker attorney Marsha W. Mignott from filing a subsequent federal class action against the State Bar of Georgia.

Had the complaint not been dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, disproving allegations of racial discrimination in its handling of lawyer disciplinary processes might have posed a challenge for the bar association made up of more than 54,000 members.