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Abolitionism in the United States; Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period; Slavery and military history during the Civil War; Reconstruction era. Politicians; Juneteenth; Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) Black power movement; Post–civil ...
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.
Jane Bolin was the first Black American woman graduate of Yale Law School and the first Black American woman judge in the United States. After graduating from Yale, Bolin worked with her family's ...
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]
Steve B. Chu: [94] First Asian American male to serve as a U.S. Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (2023) P. Casey Pitts: [95] First openly gay male to serve as a Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (2023)
Out of the 26 elected justices of the peace, nine are women, three are Black, five are Hispanic, one is Native American and two identify as LGBTQ.
Jane Bolin, both the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School and serve as a judge in the United States. Thurgood Marshall, the first black Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Robert Morris, a prominent early African American lawyer in Boston. Charlotte E. Ray, the first black woman lawyer in the United States.