Legal Profession – Judges
Cheri Beasley (1966- )
Cheri Beasley is the first African American woman to serve as Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She...
Donald Dean Haley (1932-2018)
Donald Dean Haley, was an attorney King County Superior Court judge, one of thirteen founders and past president of the...
Alice Athenia Lytle (1939-2018)
Medical technician and lawyer, state executive, and judge Alice Athenia Lytle was born on March 2, 1939 in Newark, New...
Adrienne C. Nelson (1967- )
Justice Adrienne C. Nelson is the first African American justice on the Oregon State Supreme Court, having been appointed on January 2, 2018. Justice...
James Lopez Watson (1922-2001)
James Lopez Watson was the first African American to serve as the head of a federal court in the Deep...
Oscar Adams, Jr. (1925-1997)
Oscar William Adams, Jr. was the first African American Supreme Court Justice appointed in Alabama and when he later stood...
D’Army Bailey (1941-2015)
“Image Ownership: Rollin Riggs” D’Army Bailey, founder of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis Tennessee, was a political...
Edward Richard Dudley (1911-2005)
Edward Dudley was the first black American to lead a U.S. Mission abroad with the rank of Ambassador. Dudley was...
Myles Anderson Paige (1898-1983)
Myles Anderson Paige, the first African American to be appointed a New York City Criminal Court Judge, was born on...
