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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 to practice law before the United States Supreme Court on January 29, 1926 Dennis Archer (b. 1942) [2] First African American president of the American Bar Association; former mayor of Detroit: Derrick Bell (1930–2011) [3] Proponent of critical race theory; law professor at Harvard University: Stephen L. Carter (b ...
She then became a Superior Court judge in 1988, becoming the first African-American woman to hold that position in the state. Sears was appointed as a state Supreme Court justice in 1992. Twelve years later, in what is historically a non-partisan election, the Georgia Republican Party and Georgia Christian Coalition targeted Sears for defeat in ...
First African American female: Jane Bolin (1932) in 1939 [34] First sisters to simultaneously serve as judges: Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy (1947) and Margaret G. Schaeffer (1948) [35] First African American female (elected judge): Geraldine Bledsoe Ford in 1966 [36] First Hispanic American female (county court judge): Dorothy Comstock Riley in ...
Margaret Brent: first woman to act as an attorney in the United States (1648) Arabella Mansfield: first woman admitted to practice law in the United States (1869) Charlotte E. Ray: First African American female lawyer in the United States and Washington, D.C. (1872) Lyda Conley: First Native American female lawyer in the United States (1902)
Jackson County Circuit Court announced Judge Jalilah Otto as the court’s newest presiding judge and the first African American to take on the role in the court’s nearly 200-year history.
During her time as a federal judge for the Southern District of New York, Motley made efforts to reach out to other African-American women in her position. [37] One of the women she reached out to was Judge Anne Elise Thompson who received a personal note from Motley on the day she was appointed to be a judge for the District of New Jersey. [37]
African-American federal judges (2 C, 3 P) Pages in category "African-American judges" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 543 total.