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This is a list of African Americans who have served as United States federal judges. As of December 20, 2024 [update] , 301 African-Americans have served on the federal bench. United States Supreme Court
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
This is a list of the first minority male lawyer(s) and judge(s) in each state. It includes the year in which the men were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are other distinctions such as the first minority men in their state to graduate from law school.
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 ...
Representative Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American woman to serve in Congress. From the first United States Congress in 1789 through the 116th Congress in 2020, 162 African Americans served in Congress. [1] Meanwhile, the total number of all individuals who have served in Congress over that period is 12,348. [2]
On September 20, 2012, Obama nominated Jackson to serve as a United States district judge for the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by retiring judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. [38] Republican U.S. Representative Paul Ryan, a relative by marriage, introduced Jackson at her December 2012 confirmation hearing and said, "Our politics may differ ...
Madoche Jean: [30] First African American male judge in the 17th Judicial District [Adams County, Colorado; 2020] Martin Gonzales: [31] First Hispanic American male judge in Alamosa County, Colorado (2000) James C. Flanigan: [8] [9] First African American male to serve as a Deputy District Attorney and municipal court judge in Denver, Colorado ...
As was common throughout the South, the city was the site of the lynchings of Black men, crimes now commemorated at a national memorial based here. Police arrested civil rights icon Rosa Parks ...