by BrackNaomii | Jul 29, 2018 | African American History, People
Henry Ell Frye is the first African American Assistant United States District Attorney, the first African American elected to the North Carolina General Assembly in the twentieth century, and the first African American Chief Justice for the North Carolina Supreme...
by BlockWilliam | Jun 4, 2018 | African American History, People
Justice Michael Douglas is the first African American Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court. He was first appointed in 2004 and has twice served as Chief Justice of the court. Justice Douglas was born in Los Angeles, California and graduated from California State Long...
by GittlemanFelicia | Apr 26, 2018 | African American History, People
Roderick L. Ireland was appointed to serve as Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1997, becoming the court’s first justice of African American descent. In December 2010, Justice Ireland was appointed to serve as Chief Justice of the...
by BlockWilliam | Apr 26, 2018 | African American History, People
George Howard, Jr. was the first black justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court and the first black federal judge in Arkansas. As a lawyer, he litigated cases that resulted in the desegregation of Arkansas public schools. As a federal judge, he presided over the...
by WithunDavid | Apr 24, 2018 | African American History, People
Robert Benham is the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of Georgia. Benham was born September 25, 1946, in Cartersville, Georgia, to Jesse Knox and Clarence Benham. He is the great-grandchild of enslaved people. After graduation from Summer...
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