Honorable Mason Darrell Barrett

Judge Mason Barrett is a 1973 Linden-Kildare High School. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Denver College of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Prairie View A&M University.

Locally, he is the Project Director for the Macedonia Rock School Preservation Project and a board member of the Fairview Junior-Senior High School Reunion Corporation and the Linden Cemetery Association.

He has more than 35 years’ experience in civil rights and equal employment opportunity (EEO) law. On October 1, 2018, he was elevated to the position of Supervisory Administrative Judge in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) Birmingham District Office where he now supervises three judges.

His office’s jurisdiction includes the states of Alabama, Mississippi, and the northern panhandle of Florida. Following in the footsteps of his parents, M. J. Barrett, and Audrey Mae Barrett, each an educator, Judge Barrett has formed The Bar Examination Academy to assist law students in studying for the bar examination.

The results of The Bar Examination Academy have been outstanding.

In February 2017 and July 2019, the Academy had students who raised their overall bar examination score by 35 points and passed, in the 2019 bar exam cycle, the Academy had students who were multiple- time repeat takers achieve extraordinary passing scores, on the February 2020 bar exam, the Academy had five students (all repeat takers), pass including three with extraordinary scores and at least two who raised their scores by as much as 29 points or more and on the July 2020 bar exam, the Academy had five students pass, all achieving extraordinary scores on the Uniform Bar Examination.

Several of the attorneys Barrett has helped along the way have gone on to bigger things such as being judges, opening several law offices in different states, being on city councils and being voted into state legislatures.

Please note that the difference in passing a bar exam can be less than one point on the essay or performance components of the bar exam.

As help the Academy teaches individuals how to write clear, concise, and lawyer-like answers on the essay and performance components of the bar examination, show students to adequately study and prepare for the 200 question multiple-choice component of the bar examination and how scriptures in the Gospel of Luke can assist the student in achieving success on the multiple-choice (Luke 9:62) and essay/performance (Luke 23: 39 - 43) components of the bar examination.

Because many of the students assisted are repeating the bar exam, the Academy does not boast about pass rates because it knows that the bar exam is an extremely personal test which requires individual effort, hard work, and the results depend on the amount of work everyone invests into their preparation.

You can check out Judge Barrett’s website at www.thelawyermakers. com or for information send an email to info@thelawyermakers.com.

Black History on this date: On this day (Feb. 1, 1865) John S. Rock became the first Black attorney admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.