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

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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[]

George Lewis Ruffin: First African American male to earn a law degree in the United States (1869)
Hong Yen Chang: First male lawyer of Chinese descent in the United States (1888)
Herbert Choy: First Korean American male lawyer in the United States (1941)

Law Degrees[]

  • George Lewis Ruffin (1869):[1][2][3] First African American male to earn a law degree in the U.S. (1869)
  • Sit Ming Cook:[4] First Chinese male to seek a legal education in the U.S., but was denied admission to a law school (c. 1878)
  • Hong Yen Chang (1888):[5] First Chinese male immigrant to earn a law degree in the U.S. (1886)
  • Josiah McIntyre:[6][7] First blind male to earn a law degree in the U.S. (1889)
  • Gonzalo Manibog:[8] First Filipino American male to graduate with a law degree in the U.S. (1917)
  • Thomas Dodge:[9] First Navajo male to graduate with a law degree in the U.S. (1924)
  • Silas Herbert Hunt:[10] First African American male to enroll in a predominantly-White Southern university since the Reconstruction era (1948)

Lawyers[]

  • Moses Levy (1778):[11][12][13][14] First Jewish American male lawyer in the U.S. He would later become a judge.
  • James McDonald (c. 1820s):[15] First Native American (Choctaw) male lawyer in the U.S.
  • Macon Bolling Allen (1844):[16][17] First African American male lawyer in the U.S.
  • Robert Morris (1847):[18] First African American male lawyer to win a jury trial (1848)
  • Elias Cornelius Boudinot (1856):[19] First Native American male lawyer admitted to practive before the U.S. Supreme Court (c. 1860s)
  • John Rock (1861):[20][21] First African American male lawyer admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court (1865)
  • Augustin Haidusek (c. 1870):[22] First male lawyer of Czech descent in the U.S.
  • Samuel R. Lowery (1874):[20] First African American male lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1880)
  • Joseph G. Parkinson (1880):[23] First deaf male lawyer in the United States
  • Hong Yen Chang (1888):[5] First Chinese male lawyer in the U.S.
  • Albert Gallatin "Cheesie" McIntosh (1889):[24][25][26] First Native American (Creek people) male admitted to practice before the federal courts (c. early 1900s)
  • Thomas L. Sloan (1892):[27][28][29] First Native American (Omaha people) male lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1904)
  • Masuji Miyakawa (1905):[30] First Japanese American male lawyer in the U.S.
  • Roger Demosthenes O'Kelly (1908):[31][32] First African American deaf male lawyer in the U.S.
  • Pablo Manlapit (1919):[33] First male lawyer of Filipino descent in the U.S.
  • You Chung Hong[34][35] (1923): First Chinese American male lawyer to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court (1933)
  • Charles Hamilton Houston (1924):[20][36] First African American male lawyer to argue and win a case before the U.S. Supreme Court
  • Manuel Ruiz (1930):[37][38][39] First Latino American male lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1952)
  • Herbert Choy (1941):[40] First Korean American male lawyer in the U.S.
  • Benjamim Gim (c. 1949):[41][42] First Asian American lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1957)
  • Leonard Staisey (c. 1950):[43][44] First blind male lawyer in the U.S.
  • Michael A. Chatoff (c. 1960s):[45][46][47] First deaf male lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1982)
  • Thelton Henderson (1962):[48] First African American male lawyer in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division
  • Rodney B. Lewis (1972):[49][50][51] First Native American (Gila River Indian Community) male lawyer to win a U.S. Supreme Court case (1980)
  • Harris L. Kimball:[52][53][54] First openly LGBT male lawyer in the U.S. (1973)
  • George Lewis Ruffin (1869):[55][56][3] First African American male to earn a law degree from Harvard University [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
  • John Ward:[57] First openly LGBT male lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1995)
  • Christopher Thang Tao (c. 1986):[58] First Hmong American male lawyer in the U.S.
  • Sergio C. Garcia (2014):[59] First undocumented immigrant male admitted to practice law in the U.S. and the California State Bar

Law clerks[]

Judicial officers[]

Justice of the peace[]

Judges[]

  • Issac Miranda:[11][12][13][14] First Jewish American male to serve as a judge in the U.S. and Pennsylvania (1727)
  • Macon Bolling Allen (1844):[16][17] First African American male judicial officer in the U.S. and Massachusetts (1847)
  • James Dean (1884):[69][70] First African American male elected as a county judge in the South since Reconstruction and in Florida (1888)
  • William "Billy" Heen:[4] First Chinese American male judge in the U.S. and Hawaii (1917)
  • Lawson E. Thomas (1923):[71] First African American male judge in the South since Reconstruction and in Florida (1950)
  • Dalip Singh Saund:[72][73] First Asian Indian-American male elected as a judge in the U.S. (1950)
  • John Aiso (1941):[74][75][76][77] First Japanese American judge in the contiguous U.S. and California (1952)
  • Delbert E. Wong (1948):[78][79][80] First Chinese American male judge in the contiguous U.S. and California (1959)
  • Stephen Lachs (1963):[81] First openly LGBT male judge in the U.S. and California (1979)
  • William McKinley Branch:[82][83][84] First African American male elected as a probate judge in the U.S. and Alabama (1970)
  • Mel Red Recana (1974):[85][86][87] First Filipino American male judge in the U.S. and California (1981)
  • Joe Brown:[88] First African American male to preside over a courtroom television show in the U.S. (1998)[89]
  • David Young:[90] First openly LGBT male to preside over a courtroom television show in the U.S. (2007)[91]
  • Paul C. Lo (1994):[92] First Hmong American male judge in the U.S. and California (2013)
  • Firdaus Dordi:[93][94] First Zoroastrian male judge in the U.S. and California (2017)
  • Mike Jacobs:[95] First openly LGBT judge in the U.S. and Georgia (2018)[96]
  • Bryant Yang:[97] First Burmese-American judge in the U.S. (2020)[98]

State judgeships[]

Justices[]
  • Jonathan Jasper Wright (1865):[20] First African American male to serve on a state supreme court (1870)
  • Masaji Marumoto:[72][99] First Japanese American male to serve on a state supreme court (1956)
  • Wilfred Tsukiyama (c. 1924):[72][100][101] First Japanese American male to serve as the Chief Justice of a state supreme court (1959)
  • Ben Menor:[72][102][103] First Filipino American male to serve on a state supreme court (1974)
  • Robert N. C. Nix Jr. (c. 1954):[104] First African American male to serve as the Chief Justice of a state supreme court (1984)
  • Luis Rovira:[105][106] First Hispanic American male to serve as the Chief Justice of a state supreme court (1990)
  • Richard B. Teitelman (1973):[107][108] First blind male (who is Jewish) appointed as a state supreme court justice (2002)
  • Rives Kistler (1981):[109] First openly LGBT male appointed as a state supreme court justice (2003)

Federal judgeships[]

District court[]
  • James Benton Parsons (1949):[20] First African American to serve as a U.S. federal judge in a U.S. District Court (1961)
  • Dick Yin Wong (1950):[133] First Chinese American appointed as a federal district court judge (1975)
  • Richard C. Casey (1958):[134] First blind male to become a federal district court judge (1997)
  • Denny Chin (1978):[34] First Asian American male appointed as a U.S. district court judge outside of the Ninth Circuit (2010)
  • J. Paul Oetken (1991):[135] First openly LGBT male appointed as a U.S. district court judge (2011)
  • Amul Thapar (1994):[136] First South Asian American male appointed as a federal district judge (2007)
Claims court[]
Circuit court[]
  • Chuck Mau:[72][138] First Chinese American male appointed as a state circuit court judge (1950)
  • Ben Menor:[72][102][103] First Filipino American male appointed as a state circuit court judge (1968)
  • Arthur Alarcón:[139][140] First Latino American male appointed as a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1979)
  • Julio M. Fuentes (1975):[141] First Hispanic American male appointed as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2000)
  • Todd M. Hughes (1992):[142] First openly LGBT male appointed as a judge on a federal circuit court (2013)[143]
  • Patrick J. Bumatay:[144] First openly LGBT male appointed as a Judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (2019)
Bankruptcy Court[]
  • Robert Kwan:[145] First male of Chinese ancestry to serve as a federal bankruptcy judge in the U.S. (2007)
Customs court[]
Tax court[]
  • Juan Vasquez:[147] First Latino American male appointed as a Judge of the U.S. Tax Court (1995)
Appellate court[]
Justices[]
  • Louis Brandeis (1878):[155] First Jewish male appointed as Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1916)
  • Thurgood Marshall (1933):[156] First African American male appointed a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1967)
  • Antonin Scalia (1960):[157] First Italian American male appointed as Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1986)

Judge advocate general[]

Attorneys General[]

Federal[]

State[]

  • Edward Brooke (1948):[162] First African American male to serve as a state attorney general in the U.S. and Massachusetts (1962)
  • Larry Echo Hawk:[163][164] First Native American male to serve as a state attorney general in the U.S. and Idaho (1991)
  • Gurbir Grewal (1999):[165] First Sikh American male to serve as a state attorney general in the U.S. and New Jersey (2018)

Deputy Attorneys General[]

Federal[]

State[]

  • Chuck Mau:[72][138] First Chinese American male to serve as a Deputy Attorney General in the U.S. (c. 1936)

Associate Attorney General[]

Federal[]

Deputy Associate Attorney General[]

Federal[]

  • Nelson Dong (1974):[34][168] First Chinese American male appointed as a Deputy Associate Attorney General of the United States (1979-1980)

Assistant Attorney General[]

Federal[]

Civil Rights Division[]

Special Assistant to the Attorney General[]

Federal[]

Solicitor General[]

Federal[]

United States Attorney[]

  • Cecil F. Poole (1939):[175] First African American male to serve as a U.S. Attorney in the U.S. (1961)
  • Mickey Michaux (1964):[176] First African American male to serve as a U.S. Attorney in the South since Reconstruction (1977)
  • Terry L. Pechota (1972):[177][178][179][180] First Native American male (Sioux Indian) to serve as a U.S. Attorney in the U.S. (1979-1981)
  • Norman Bay (1986):[34] First Chinese American male to serve as a U.S. Attorney in the U.S. (2000-2001)

Assistant District Attorney[]

  • Leonard Staisey (1948):[181] First blind male lawyer (who later became a judge) to serve as an Assistant District Attorney (1950) in the U.S.

County Attorney[]

  • John C. Choi (1995):[182][183][184] First Korean American male appointed as a County Attorney in the U.S. (2011)

Public Defender[]

  • Carlos J. Martinez:[185] First Hispanic American male elected as a Public Defender in the U.S. (2008)

Political office[]

  • Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo (1888):[186] First Mexican American male (a lawyer) to serve as a U.S. Senator (1928)
  • Dennis Chávez:[187] First Latino American male (a lawyer) elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate (1936)
  • Wing F. Ong (1943):[188] First Chinese American male lawyer to enter the House of Representatives and State Legislature in the U.S.
  • Leonard Staisey (1948):[181] First blind male lawyer (who later became a judge) to serve as a Senate member in the U.S. (1961)
  • James Abourezk (c. 1966):[189][190] First Lebanese / Arab American male (a lawyer) to become a member of Congress in the U.S. and South Dakota (1973)
  • John D. Waiheʻe III (1976):[191] First male American of Native Hawaiian descent (a lawyer) to elected as a state governor in the U.S. (1986-1994)
  • Ed Flanagan (1976):[192] First openly LGBT male (a lawyer) to serve as a state comptroller in the U.S. and Vermont (1993-2001)
  • David Wu (1982):[193][194] First Taiwanese American male (a lawyer) to serve as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1999)
  • David Cicilline:[195][196][197] First openly LGBT male (a lawyer) to become the mayor of a US state capital (2003-2011)
  • Keith Ellison (1990):[198][199] First Muslim American male lawyer (who is African American) elected to the U.S. Congress (Minnesota, 2006)
  • Cyrus Habib:[200] First Iranian American male (a lawyer who is also blind) elected to a statewide office in the U.S. (2012)

Presidential candidates / presidents[]

  • Frank R. Beckwith:[201] First African American male (a lawyer) to run as a candidate for the President of the U.S. in a major-party primary (1960)
  • Hiram Fong:[202][203][204] First Asian American male (a lawyer) to run as a candidate for the President of the U.S. (1964)
  • Barack Obama (1991):[205] First African American male (a lawyer) to become President of the United States (2009-2017)

Bar associations[]

Federal[]

State[]

  • :[213] First African American elected president of a state bar association (1981-1982)
  • Wayne Budd:[214] First African American male to serve as the president of a state bar association (1979-1980)
  • Mark Johnson:[215] First openly LGBT male to serve as the president of a state bar association (1998)
  • Rajeev Majumdar:[216] First American male of South Asian descent to serve as the president of a state bar association (2019)

Faculty[]

Firsts in individual states[]

Wyoming: Plasa L. Turner[224][225] 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 US[]

  • List of first minority male lawyers and judges in the Territories of the US

See also[]

Other topics of interest[]

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