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This list includes individuals self-identified as African Americans who have made prominent contributions to the field of law in the United States, especially as eminent judges or legal scholars. Individuals who may have obtained law degrees or practiced law, but whose reasons for notability are not closely related to that profession, are generally not listed here.
Attorneys and legal scholars
= Others
=Robert Sengstacke Abbott, lawyer, newspaper publisher, editor
Raymond Pace Alexander, lawyer, politician, civil rights activist
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, lawyer
Anita L. Allen, lawyer, professor
Helen Elsie Austin, lawyer
Ferdinand Lee Barnett, lawyer, journalist
Tom Bradley, lawyer, politician
Roland Burris, lawyer, politician
Eunice Carter, lawyer
William Calvin Chase, lawyer, newspaper editor
Julius L. Chambers, lawyer, civil rights activist, educator
Laura Coates, attorney, law professor
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr., lawyer, politician
Mo Cowan, lawyer, politician
Artur Davis, lawyer, politician
Gordon Davis, lawyer
James Dean, lawyer, activist, businessperson, deacon, first African-American appointed as a judge in Florida
Elaine Denniston, lawyer, supported the Apollo program as a keypunch operator
Carl E. Douglas, lawyer
B. Kwaku Duren, lawyer, educator, writer, editor
Larry Elder, lawyer, author, radio show host
Keith Ellison, lawyer, politician
Karen Freeman-Wilson, lawyer, judge
Walter A. Gordon, lawyer
Fred Gray, civil rights lawyer
Al Green, lawyer, politician
A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., lawyer, author, civil rights advocate, federal court judge
Anita Hill, lawyer, academic
Curtis Hill, lawyer, prosecutor
Eric Holder, lawyer, 82nd United States Attorney General
Sunny Hostin (African American father), lawyer
Benjamin Hooks, lawyer, minister, civil rights activist
Valerie Jarrett, lawyer, businesswoman, government official
Jeh Johnson, lawyer, government official
Eddie Jordan, lawyer
Vernon Jordan, lawyer, business executive, civil rights activist
Florynce Kennedy, lawyer, civil rights advocate
Leondra Kruger, lawyer
Reginald Lewis, lawyer, businessman
William H. Lewis, lawyer
Lori Lightfoot, lawyer, politician
Loretta Lynch, lawyer, 83rd United States Attorney General
Conrad Lynn, lawyer, civil rights activist
Thurgood Marshall, lawyer, judge
Thurgood Marshall Jr., lawyer
Robert Morris, lawyer
Constance Baker Motley, lawyer, judge, politician, civil rights activist
Pauli Murray, lawyer, author, priest, civil rights activist
Ronald Noble, lawyer
Deval Patrick, lawyer, author, businessman, politician
Terri Sewell, lawyer, politician
Bryan Stevenson, lawyer, professor
Clarence Thomas, lawyer, judge, government official
Jordan A. Thomas, lawyer, writer
Larry Thompson, lawyer
Samuel Wilbert Tucker, lawyer
Mel Watt, lawyer, politician
Tony West, lawyer
Judicial officers
This is a dynamic list of African Americans who are or were judges, magistrate judges, court commissioners, or administrative law judges. If known, it will be listed if a judge has served on multiple courts.
See also
List of African American federal judges
List of Asian American jurists
List of Hispanic and Latino American jurists
List of Jewish American jurists
List of LGBT jurists in the United States
List of Native American jurists
List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States
List of first minority male lawyers and judges in the United States
References
Bibliography
Smith, John Clay Jr. (1999). Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844–1944. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812216851.