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His clerks included future Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan, U.S. circuit judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, and legal scholars Cass Sunstein, Mark Tushnet, and Martha Minow. Personal life Marshall, his wife Cissy , and their children John (bottom left) and Thurgood Jr. (bottom right), 1965
Black Belt in the American South; ... Judge Circuit State Began active service Ended active ... First: RI: March 30, 2010: September 21, 2022:
[1] [2] She is the first black woman and the first former federal public defender to serve on the Supreme Court. Jackson was born in Washington, D.C. , and raised in Miami , Florida. She received her undergraduate and legal education at Harvard University , where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review , and clerked for Justice ...
Biden has appointed several “first” Black judges across the nation’s district courts and courts of appeals, including Tiffany Cunningham, the first Black judge to serve on the U.S. Court of ...
First Hmong American male judge: Paul C. Lo (1994) in 2013 [106] First Zoroastrian male judge: Firdaus Dordi in 2017 [107] [108] First openly bisexual male judge: Mike Jacobs in 2018 [109] [110] First Palestinian American male judge: Abdel Majid Abdel Hadi in 2019 [111] First Burmese American male judge: Bryant Y. Yang in 2020 [112] [113]
William Henry Hastie Jr. (November 17, 1904 – April 14, 1976) was an American lawyer, judge, educator, public official, and civil rights advocate. He was the first African American to serve as Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, as a federal judge, [1] and as a federal appellate judge. [2]
Alfred Robbins (1957): [31] First African American judge from Long Island to become President of the Board of Judges in the District Court (1974). He later became the first African American male appointed as the Supervising Judge of the Court, as well as the first African American elected to the Supreme Court on Long Island, Tenth Judicial ...
First African-American woman licensed to practice law in Illinois, and the third in the United States Charlotte E. Ray (1850–1911) [14] First Black American female lawyer in the United States Scovel Richardson (1912–1982) [15] Party to a housing desegregation case anticipating Shelley v. Kraemer; also a judge in federal courts from 1957