page_title: Lists of African Americans
section_title: Lawyers
hierarchical_section_title: Lists of African Americans / Lawyers
caption_attribution_description: English: Johnnie Cochran in 2001
context_page_description: This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans. African Americans an ethnic group and citizens of the United States who have full or partial ancestry of any black racial groups of Africa; Black and African Americans form the third largest racial and ethnic group in the United States, behind White Americans and Hispanic and Latino Americans. African Americans are descendants of enslaved black people who are from the United States.
  To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is African-American.
context_section_description: 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
  Derrick Bell, lawyer, professor, civil rights activist
  Tom Bradley, lawyer, politician
  Roland Burris, lawyer, politician
  Eunice Carter, lawyer
  Laura Coates, attorney, law professor
  William Calvin Chase, lawyer, newspaper editor
  Julius L. Chambers, lawyer, civil rights activist, educator
  Johnnie Cochran, lawyer
  William Thaddeus Coleman Jr., lawyer, politician
  Mo Cowan, lawyer, politician
  Christopher Darden, lawyer, author, actor, lecturer, practicing attorney
  Artur Davis, lawyer, politician
  Gordon Davis, lawyer
  Carl E. Douglas, lawyer
  B. Kwaku Duren, lawyer, educator, writer, editor
  Larry Elder, lawyer, author, radio show host
  Keith Ellison, lawyer, politician
  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
  Barbara Jordan, lawyer, educator, politician, civil rights activist
  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
  Conrad Lynn, lawyer, civil rights activist
  Loretta Lynch, lawyer, 83rd United States Attorney General
  Thurgood Marshall, lawyer, judge
  Thurgood Marshall Jr., lawyer
  Wade H. McCree, lawyer, judge, professor
  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
  Charlotte E. Ray, lawyer, first African-American female lawyer
  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
  Karen Freeman-Wilson, lawyer, judge
caption: Johnnie Cochran
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