List of first minority male lawyers and judges in the United States

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 obtain a law degree or become a political figure.

Firsts nationwide

  • Issac Abraham:[1][2][3][4] First Jewish American male to serve as a judge in the U.S. (1727)
  • Moses Levy (1778):[1][2][3][4] First Jewish American male lawyer in the U.S. and Pennsylvania. He would later become a judge.
  • Wentworth Cheswell:[5] First African American male Justice of the Peace in the U.S. (1805)
  • James McDonald (c. 1820s):[6] First Native American (Choctaw) male lawyer in the U.S.
  • Macon Bolling Allen (1844):[7] First African American male lawyer and judge (1848) in the U.S.[8]
  • John Rock (1861):[9][10] First African American male lawyer admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court (1865)
  • Jonathan Jasper Wright (1865):[9] First African American male to serve on a state supreme court
  • Augustin Haidusek (c. 1870):[11] First male lawyer of Czech descent in the U.S.
  • Samuel R. Lowery (1874):[9] First African American male lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1880)
  • Louis Brandeis (1878):[12] First Jewish male appointed as Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1916)
  • Joseph G. Parkison (c. 1883):[13] First deaf male lawyer in the United States
  • Hong Yen Chang (1887):[14] First Chinese male lawyer in the U.S. and New York
  • Thomas L. Sloan (1892):[15][16][17] First Native American (Omaha people) male lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1904)
  • Masuji Miyakawa (1905):[18] First Japanese American male lawyer in the U.S.
  • Roger Demosthenes O'Kelly (1980):[19] First deaf African American male lawyer in the U.S.
  • Pablo Manlapit (1919):[20] First male lawyer of Filipino descent in the U.S.
  • Irvin Charles Mollison (1923):[21] First African American male to serve on the U.S. Customs Court (1945)
  • Charles Hamilton Houston (1924):[9][22] First African American male lawyer to argue and win a case before the U.S. Supreme Court
  • William H. Hastie (1931):[9][23] First African American male appointed as a federal judge (1937)
  • Manuel Ruiz (1930):[24][25][26] First Latino American male lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1952)
  • Thurgood Marshall (1933):[27] First African American male appointed as the U.S. Solicitor General (1965) and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1967)
  • Shiro Kashiwa (1936):[28] First Japanese American male appointed to a federal judgeship (1972)
  • William B. Bryant (1939):[29] First African American male to be appointed as a chief federal judge (1977)
  • Reynaldo Guerra Garza (1939):[30] First Mexican American male appointed to a federal court (1961) and a U.S. Court of Appeals circuit (1979)
  • Herbert Choy (1941):[31] First Korean American male lawyer and circuit judge in the U.S.
  • John Aiso (1941):[32][33][34][35] First Japanese American judge in the contiguous U.S. and California (1952)
  • Wing F. Ong (1943):[36] First Chinese American male lawyer to enter the House of Representatives and State Legislature in the U.S.
  • Leonard Staisey (1948):[37] First blind male lawyer (who later became a judge) to serve as an Asst. District Attorney (1950) and Senate member (1961)
  • Delbert E. Wong (1948):[38][39][40] First Chinese American male judge in the contiguous U.S. and California (1959)
  • Wade H. McCree (1948):[41][42] First African American male appointed as a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit (1966)
  • James Benton Parsons (1949):[9] First African American to serve as a U.S. federal judge in a U.S. District Court (1961)
  • Benjamim Gim (c. 1949):[43][44] First Asian American lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1957)
  • Dick Yin Wong (1950):[45] First Chinese American appointed as a federal district court judge (1975)
  • Michael A. Chatoff (c. 1960s):[46][47][48] First deaf male lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1982)
  • Antonin Scalia (1960):[49] First Italian American male appointed as Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1986)
  • A. Wallace Tashima (1961):[50] First Japanese American male appointed to a U.S. Court of Appeals (1995)
  • Stephen Lachs (1963):[51] First openly LGBT male judge in the U.S. (1979)
  • José A. Cabranes (1965):[52] First Puerto Rican male appointed to a federal judgeship in the continental U.S.
  • David S. Tatel (1966):[53] First blind male appointed as a federal judge (1994)
  • Ronald S. W. Lew (1971):[54][55] First Chinese American male appointed to the federal bench in the contiguous U.S. (1987)
  • Rodney B. Lewis (1972):[56][57][58] First Native American (Gila River Indian Community) male lawyer to win a U.S. Supreme Court case (1980)
  • Richard B. Teitelman (1973):[59][60] First blind male appointed as a state supreme court justice (2002)
  • Michael Burrage (1974):[61][62] First Native American (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) male appointed as a federal judge (1994)
  • Mel Red Recana (1974):[63][64][65] First Filipino American male judge in the U.S. and California (1981)
  • Julio M. Fuentes (1975):[66] First Hispanic American male appointed as a Judge of the Third Circuit (2000)
  • Eric Holder (1976):[67] First African American male to be appointed as the Attorney General of the U.S. (2009-2015)
  • Eduardo C. Robreno (1978):[30] First Cuban American male appointed as a federal judge (1992)
  • Rives Kistler (1981):[68] First openly LGBT male appointed as a state supreme court justice (2003)
  • Alberto Gonzales (1982): First Hispanic American male to be appointed as the Attorney General of the U.S. (2005-2007)
  • Christopher Thang Tao (c. 1986):[69] First Hmong American male lawyer in the U.S.
  • Keith Ellison (1990):[70][71] First Muslim American male lawyer (who is African American) elected to the U.S. Congress (Minnesota, 2006)
  • Barack Obama (1991):[72] First African American male lawyer to become President of the United States (2009-2017)
  • J. Paul Oetken (1991):[73] First openly LGBT male appointed as a U.S. district court judge (2011)
  • Todd M. Hughes (1992):[74] First openly LGBT male appointed as a judge on a federal circuit court (2013)
  • Darrin P. Gayles (1993):[75] First openly LGBT African American male appointed as a U.S. federal judge (2014)
  • Paul C. Lo (1994):[76] First Hmong American male judge in the U.S. and in Merced County, California
  • Amul Thapar (1994):[77] First South Asian American male appointed as a federal district judge (2007)
  • John C. Choi (1995):[78][79][80] First Korean American male appointed as a County Attorney in the U.S. (2011)
  • Sri Srinivasan (1995):[81][82] First South Asian American male appointed as a federal appellate judge (2013)
  • Sergio C. Garcia (2014):[83] First undocumented immigrant male admitted to practice law in the U.S. and the California State Bar

Firsts in individual states

North Dakota: In 1900, the first African American male attorney was listed in the census. However, it is uncertain who that person is.[84]

Wyoming: Plasa L. Turner[85][86] was an African American male lawyer that appeared in the Wyoming census (1910). His historical significance is unclear.

Firsts in Washington, D.C. (Federal District)

Firsts in the Territories of the U.S.

See also

Other topics of interest

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