by BrackNaomii | Mar 14, 2018 | African American History, People
Charles E. Freeman is the first and only African American to serve on the State of Illinois Supreme Court, representing the First Judicial District of Illinois. Freeman was born in 1933 in Richmond, Virginia. A 1954 graduate of Virginia Union University in Richmond,...
by BrackNaomii | Mar 14, 2018 | African American History, People
Myra Consetta Selby has served as both the first African American and first female associate justice appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court. Selby was born in 1955 in Bay City, Michigan. Selby’s father, the late Ralph L. Selby, worked as an attorney; her mother...
by IaroslavtsevNicholas | Mar 11, 2018 | African American History, People
James H. Coleman, Jr., is an American lawyer, judge, and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Born on May 4th, 1933, in Lawrenceville, Virginia, Coleman is the son of a poor southern sharecropper. While Coleman has since retired his...
by IaroslavtsevNicholas | Mar 11, 2018 | African American History, People
Robert Morton Duncan was an American prosecutor, judge, and the first African-American to serve on the Ohio state Supreme Court. Born on August 24th, 1927, in Urbana, Ohio, Duncan is the son of parents Benjamin Austin and Wanda Brown Duncan. Duncan attended...
by BeselPeter | Mar 3, 2018 | African American History, People
Born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1950, John Charles Thomas, the first African American to sit on the Virginia Supreme Court, began his higher education at the University of Virginia in 1968, and four years later he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American in...
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