Kathleen Sweet, president of the New York State Bar Association, issued a public statement on Friday on the posthumous admission of Ely S. Parker to the New York Bar.

Sweet’s statement followed last week’s admission ceremony in Buffalo, where Parker’s legal legacy was formally recognized.

Sweet said the admissions “corrects a longstanding injustice” and recognizes a man who “was a lawyer in every sense of the word,” despite being barred from the profession in his lifetime because he was Native American.

Her remarks underscored the bar association’s public acknowledgment of Parker’s exclusion and its endorsement of the decision to correct it,

“The posthumous admission of Ely S. Parker to the New York Bar today corrects a longstanding injustice,” Sweet said. “Parker wrote the final draf

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