Government – Federal – Legal
Jeh C. Johnson (1957- )
Jeh (pronounced “Jay”) Charles Johnson, a civil and criminal trial lawyer, was the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. Johnson received...
Derrick Albert Bell Jr. (1930-2011)
Derrick Bell, legal scholar and teacher, was the first Black law professor at Harvard Law School to achieve tenure and...
(1896) The Plessy v. Ferguson Decision
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was the seminal post-Reconstruction Supreme Court decision that judicially validated state sponsored segregation in public facilities...
Melody Barnes (1964- )
Melody Barnes was chosen by then President-elect Barack Obama to serve as the Director of Domestic Policy Council shortly after...
Spottswood William Robinson (1916-1998)
Spottswood William Robinson III, a prominent federal judge during the Civil Rights era, was born on July 26, 1916 in...
Victor O. Frazer (1943- )
Victor O. Frazer, attorney and politician, was born May 24, 1943 in Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands...
