List of African American jurists

! Name

! Historical significance

|Violette Neatley Anderson (1882–1937){{Cite web|url=https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/event/violette-neatly-anderson-is-the-first-black-woman-to-practice-law-before-the-u-s-supreme-court/|title=Violette Neatly Anderson is the first black woman to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court (2010-01-29)|language=en-US|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|First African-American woman to practice law before the United States Supreme Court on January 29, 1926

|Dennis Archer (b. 1942)Dennis Archer Becomes First African American President-Elect of the American Bar Association [https://web.archive.org/web/20021117235458/http://www.usmayors.org/uscm/us_mayor_newspaper/documents/09_09_02/archer.asp]

| First African American president of the American Bar Association; former mayor of Detroit

|Derrick Bell (1930–2011)[http://smithsonianassociates.org/programs/bell/bell.htm Derrick Bell: The Art and Dynamics of Protest] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051125052959/http://smithsonianassociates.org/programs/bell/bell.htm|date=November 25, 2005}}

| Proponent of critical race theory; law professor at Harvard University

|Stephen L. Carter (b. 1954)[http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/SCarter.htm Yale Law School page on Stephen L. Carter]

| William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School

|Johnnie Cochran (1937–2005)[http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/29/cochran.obit/ CNN obituary of Cochran]

| Prominent defense attorney

|Christopher Darden (b. 1956){{Cite web|url=http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Simpson/Darden.htm|title=UMKC Biography of Christopher Darden|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051228131046/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Simpson/Darden.htm|archive-date=December 28, 2005|access-date=December 23, 2005}}

| Associate District Attorney of Los Angeles who gained fame as a prosecutor in the O. J. Simpson trial

|Marian Wright Edelman (b. 1939){{Cite web |url=http://womenshistory.about.com/od/marianwrightedelman/p/m_w_edelman.htm |title=Women's History Profile of Marian Wright Edelman |access-date=December 25, 2005 |archive-date=January 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170104125926/http://womenshistory.about.com/od/marianwrightedelman/p/m_w_edelman.htm |url-status=dead }}

| Founder of the Children's Defense Fund

|Lani Guinier (1950–2022)[http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/bulletin/backissues/spring99/article3.html Harvard University biography of Lani Guinier]

| Voting rights scholar; first African American woman tenured by Harvard Law School

|William Henry Harrison Hart (1857–1934)Gates, Jr. and Higginbotham, African American National Biography, Volume 4. (2008), p. 104.

| Attorney who fought against Jim Crow laws

|Barbara Jordan (1936–1996)[http://www.house.gov/jacksonlee/AllAboutHouston/barbara_charline_jordan.htm United States Congress biography of Barbara Jordan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060111072532/http://www.house.gov/jacksonlee/AllAboutHouston/barbara_charline_jordan.htm|date=January 11, 2006}}

| First African American Congresswoman from a southern state; while on House Judiciary Committee was influential in impeachment of Richard Nixon

|Wade H. McCree (1920–1987){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/01/obituaries/wade-h-mccree-jr-dies-at-67-was-judge-and-solicitor-general.html|title=Wade H. McCree Jr. Dies at 67; Was Judge and Solicitor General|last=Pace|first=Eric|date=September 1, 1987|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 15, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

| Second African American (following Thurgood Marshall) to serve as Solicitor General of the United States

|Barack Obama (b. 1961){{Cite web | url=http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmfirsts.html |title = Famous Firsts by African Americans}}

|University of Chicago law professor, United States Senator, first African-American President of the Harvard Law Review, and 44th President of the United States of America

|Ida Platt (1862–1939){{Cite journal|publisher=IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law|date=January 1, 1894|title=Ida Platt|url=https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/womeninlaw/3|journal=Girls Want to Study Law: 100 Years of Women Graduates}}

|First African-American woman licensed to practice law in Illinois, and the third in the United States

|Charlotte E. Ray (1850–1911){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w1MzI8F6X40C&q=Charlotte%20E.%20Ray&pg=PA114|title=Black American Biographies: The Journey of Achievement|first=Jeff |last=Wallenfeldt |date=August 15, 2010|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc|isbn=978-1-61530-137-9|language=en}}

|First Black American female lawyer in the United States

|Scovel Richardson (1912–1982){{cite journal |last1=Gordon |first1=Colin |title=Dress rehearsal for Shelley: Scovel Richardson and the challenge to racial restrictions in St. Louis |journal=Washington University Journal of Law & Policy |date=2022-01-01 |volume=67 |issue=1 |url=https://journals.library.wustl.edu/lawpolicy/article/id/8586/#! |access-date=1 March 2022}}

|Party to a housing desegregation case anticipating Shelley v. Kraemer; also a judge in federal courts from 1957

|Patricia J. Williams (b. 1951)[http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/2005/PWilliams.html Commencement speech by Patricia Williams]

| Proponent of critical race theory; law professor at Columbia University

|William F. Yardley (1844–1924)Lewis Laska, [http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1544 William F. Yardley]. Retrieved: April 5, 2011.

| Anti-segregation advocate; first African American candidate for governor of Tennessee (1876)

! Judge

! Court/agency and years of service (if known)

! State/territory

! Status

|Sheila Abdus-Salaam{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/judge-sheila-abdus-salaam-nation-s-first-muslim-judge-found-n746046|title=Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam, Described as 'Trailblazer,' Found Dead in New York (2017-04-13)|website=NBC News|language=en-US}}

|New York City Civil Court (1992–1993); New York Supreme Court (1993–2009); Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department (2009–2013); New York Court of Appeals (2013–2017)

|New York

|deceased

|Nancy Abudu{{Cite web|last=Long|first=Colleen|date=December 23, 2021|title=40 federal judges confirmed in 2021; Biden nominates 2 more|url=https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-bill-clinton-race-and-ethnicity-voting-rights-district-of-columbia-80830dd1e0687173a0d3927952ed4a8b|work=Associated Press}}

|United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (2023– )

|Georgia

|active

|Henry Lee Adams Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1377031/|title=Adams, Henry Lee, Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 24, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Fourth Judicial Circuit of Florida (1979–1993); United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida (1993– )

|Florida

|active

|Oscar W. Adams Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/18/us/oscar-adams-72-a-pioneer-as-alabama-top-court-justice.html|title=Oscar Adams, A Pioneer As Alabama Top Justice|date=February 18, 1997|website=The New York Times|language=en-US}}

|Supreme Court of Alabama (1980–1993)

|Alabama

|deceased

|Fritz W. Alexander II{{Cite web|url=https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/fritz-w-alexander-ii/|title=Fritz W. Alexander II|website=Historical Society of the New York Courts|language=en-US|access-date=February 17, 2020}}

|New York Appellate Division, First Department (1982–1985)

|New York

|resigned

|Raymond Pace Alexander{{Cite web|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/alexander_rp.html|title=Raymond Pace Alexander Papers 1880–1975|website=University of Pennsylvania University Archives and Records Center|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas (1959–1974)

|Pennsylvania

|deceased

|Elreta Melton Alexander-Ralston{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncpedia.org/ralston-elreta-melton-alexander|title=Ralston, Elreta Melton Alexander {{!}} NCpedia|website=www.ncpedia.org|access-date=January 24, 2020}}

|North Carolina District Court (appt. 1968)

|North Carolina

|deceased

|Arenda Wright Allen{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/allen-arenda-lauretta-wright|title=Allen, Arenda Lauretta Wright|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 21, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (2011– )

|Virginia

|active

|Macon Bolling Allen{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/allen-macon-bolling-1816-1894/|title=Macon Bolling Allen (1816–1894)|website=BlackPast.org|date=December 31, 2008|access-date=January 27, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Justice of the Peace for Middlesex County (appt. 1848); Inferior Court of Charleston (appt. 1873); Charleston County Probate Court (appt. 1873)

|Massachusetts

|deceased

|Christopher M. Alston

|Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Washington (2015– )

|Washington

|active

|Rossie D. Alston Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/6586021|title=Alston, Rossie David, Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=August 26, 2021|language=en-US}}

|Court of Appeals of Virginia (2009–2019); United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (2019– )

|Virginia

|active

|Eldora Anderson{{Cite web|url= http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20060719/NEWS/60719003?p=3&tc=pg|title=West Alabama Roundup: Fayette Sheriff Goes Down in Runoff|website=Tuscaloosa News|access-date=July 19, 2006|language=en-US}}

|Perry County Probate Court (2006– )

|Alabama

|active

|Percy Anderson{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1391476|title=Percy Anderson|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Central District of California (2002– )

|California

|active

|Saundra Brown Armstrong{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1377261|title=Saundra Brown Armstrong|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of California (1991– )

|California

|active

|Israel "I.M." Augustine Jr.{{Cite web|title=Blakeview: Remembering pioneering Black jurists Israel Augustine Jr. and Revius Ortique Jr.|url=https://www.nola.com/gambit/news/blake_pontchartrain/article_02dffcea-64d5-11eb-b09a-4b67fdeb8a00.html|access-date=January 24, 2022|website=NOLA.com|language=en}}

|Orleans Criminal District Court (1969)

|Louisiana

|deceased

|Jacquelyn D. Austin{{Cite web |last=Raymond |first=Nate |date=January 24, 2024 |title=US Senate confirms two Biden judicial nominees in Republican-led states |url=https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-senate-confirms-two-biden-judicial-nominees-republican-led-states-2024-01-24/ |access-date=January 24, 2024 |website=Reuters}}

|United States District Court for the District of South Carolina (2011– )

|South Carolina

|active

|Henry Autrey{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1391581|title=Henry Edward Autrey|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (2002– )

|Missouri

|active

|Dionne Phillips Bagsby{{Cite web|url=https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article224248145.html/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241211210208/https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article224248145.html/|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 11, 2024|title=Leader, educator, friend — Dionne Bagsby, first black Tarrant County commissioner, dies|date=January 11, 2019|website=Fort Worth Star-Telegram|language=en-US}}

|Tarrant County Commissioners Court (1978–2005)

|Texas

|deceased

|Nannette A. Baker{{Cite web|url=https://www.ali.org/members/member/441196/|title=The Hon. Nannette A. Baker|website=American Law Institute|access-date=January 27, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Missouri Court of Appeals (2004–2009); United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (2010–2023)

|Missouri

|retired

|Cynthia Baldwin{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1391191|title=Tucker, Petrese B.|website=Federal Judicial Center|language=en-US}}

|Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas (1989–2005); Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (2006–2008)

|Pennsylvania

|retired

|Shannon Baldwin{{Cite web|date=2018-11-10|title=17 black women elected as judges make history|url=https://www.ktnv.com/news/national/democracy-2018/17-black-women-elected-as-judges-in-one-texas-county-make-history|access-date=2018-12-20|website=KTNV|language=en}}

|Harris County Court (2018– )

|Texas

|active

|Camara Banfield

|Clark County Superior Court (2021– )

|Washington

|active

|Patricia Banks{{Cite web|title=Retired Judge Patricia Banks to Serve as Interim COPA Chief|url=https://news.wttw.com/2017/10/03/retired-judge-patricia-banks-serve-interim-copa-chief|access-date=2022-02-22|website=WTTW News|language=en}}

|Cook County 5th Subcircuit (1994–2018)

|Illinois

|retired

|Boce W. Barlow Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-feb-02-me-passings2.2-story.html|title=Boce W. Barlow Jr., 89; Connecticut's First Black Judge, Senator|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=February 2, 2005|language=en-US|date=February 2, 2005}}

|Connecticut Municipal Court (appt. 1957)

|Connecticut

|deceased

|Randolph Baskerville{{Cite web|url= https://www.baskervillelaw.net/team/randolph-baskerville/|title=Randolph Baskerville|website=Baskerville & Baskerville, PLLC|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|North Carolina 9B Judicial District (2005–2014)

|North Carolina

|retired

|Gordon S. Baranco{{Cite web|url=https://law.ucdavis.edu/profiles/profile.html|title=UC Davis School of Law – Profiles – Gordon S. Baranco|website=law.ucdavis.edu|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Oakland-Piedmont-Emeryville Municipal Court (1980–1984); Alameda County Superior Court (1984–2016)

|California

|retired

|Lucia Bates{{Cite web|title=Harris County Justice of the Peace (Pct. 3, Place 2)|url=http://jp.hctx.net/3-2/default.htm|access-date=2022-02-25|website=jp.hctx.net}}

|Harris County Justice of the Peace Court (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|Deborah Batts{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1377566|title=Deborah Batts|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 27, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1994–2020)

|New York

|deceased

|DeLawrence Beard{{Cite web|url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=470&category=Lawmakers&occupation=Circuit%20Court%20Judge&name=Hon.%20DeLawrence%20Beard|title=Honorable DeLawrence Beard|website=The History Makers|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221305/http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=470&category=Lawmakers&occupation=Circuit%20Court%20Judge&name=Hon.%20DeLawrence%20Beard|archive-date=March 3, 2016}}

|Sixth Judicial Circuit Court (1996–2007)

|Maryland

|retired

|Cheri Beasley{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2019/03/nc-first-black-female-chief-justice-cheri-beasley-appointed-by-governor-roy-cooper|title=Meet Cheri Beasley, North Carolina's first Black female Chief Justice|website=The Daily Tar Heel|access-date=February 19, 2020}}

|North Carolina Supreme Court (2012–2020)

|North Carolina

|term ended

|James A. Beaty Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1377626|title=James A. Beaty Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina (1994–2018)

|North Carolina

|retired

|Diana Becton{{Cite web|url=http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/July-2019/Diana-Becton-Shakes-Up-the-DAs-Office/|title=Diana Becton Shakes Up the DA's Office|website=www.oaklandmagazine.com|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Contra Costa County Municipal Court (1995–1998); Contra Costa County Superior Court (1998–2017)

|California

|retired

|Louis A. Bedford Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2014/04/10/louis-a-bedford-dallas-county-s-first-black-judge-dead-at-88/|title=Louis A. Bedford, Dallas County's first black judge, dead at 88 (2014-04-10)|website=The Dallas Morning News|date=April 10, 2014|language=en-US}}

|Dallas Municipal Court (1966–1980)

|Texas

|deceased

|Wendy Beetlestone{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394676|title=Wendy Beetlestone|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2014– )

|Pennsylvania

|active

|Romonda Belcher-Ford{{Cite web|url=https://news.drake.edu/2010/10/11/law-alumna-selected-as-first-black-female-judge-in-iowa/|title=Law alumna selected as first black female judge in Iowa (2010-10-11)|website=Drake University|date=October 11, 2010|language=en-US}}

|Polk County District Court (2010– )

|Iowa

|active

|Kathleen Bell{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QogDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22|title=3 Blacks Get Judgeships in Arkansas from Governor (1989-10-09)|date=October 9, 1989|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|language=en-US}}

|Arkansas First Judicial District (1989–2016)

|Arkansas

|retired

|Robert M. Bell{{Cite web|url=https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/29ap/former/html/msa11654.html|title=Robert M. Bell, Chief Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals|website=msa.maryland.gov|access-date=March 10, 2020}}

|Circuit Court for Baltimore City (1980–1984); Maryland Court of Special Appeals (1984–1991); Maryland Court of Appeals (1991–2013)

|Maryland

|retired

|Te'iva Bell{{Cite web|title=Te'iva Bell and Candance White Seek the Vote for Judge of Houston's 339th District Court|url=https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2020/06/21/teiva-bell-and-candance-white-seek-the-vote-for-judge-of-houstons-339th-district-court/|access-date=2022-02-24|website=Texas Lawyer|language=en}}

|Harris County 339th District Court (2021– )

|Texas

|active

|DeAndrea G. Benjamin{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13233251|title=Benjamin, DeAndrea Gist|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=February 21, 2023|language=en-US}}

|South Carolina Circuit Court (2011–2023); United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2023– )

|South Carolina

|active

|Alfred H. Bennett{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394771|title=Alfred H. Bennett|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (2015– )

|Texas

|active

|L. Howard Bennett{{Cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/judge-l-howard-bennett-grandson-of-slave-broke-state-and-city-race-barriers/420821923/|title=Judge L. Howard Bennett, grandson of slave, broke race barriers in Minnesota, Minneapolis|website=Star Tribune|access-date=January 25, 2020}}

|Minneapolis Municipal Court (appt. 1957)

|Minnesota

|deceased

|Gail B. Bereola{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-program-redefines-juvenile-justice-3227009.php|title=Oakland program redefines juvenile justice|last=Payton|first=Brenda|date=June 21, 2009|website=SFGate|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Alameda County Municipal Court (1992–1998); Alameda County Superior Court (1998– )

|California

|active

|Kanawha County Circuit Court (1994–2009); United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia (2009– )

|West Virginia

|active

|Karen Bethea-Shields{{Cite web|url=http://andjusticeforall.dconc.gov/gallery_images/karen-bethea-shields-first-female-judge-in-durham-county-1980-1986/|title=And Justice for All {{!}} » Karen Bethea-Shields, First Female Judge in Durham County, 1980–1986|access-date=January 24, 2020}}

|North Carolina 14th District Court (1980–1986)

|North Carolina

|resigned

|Deborah Biggers{{Cite web|url= https://www.fisk.edu/articles/fisk-university-news-jan15/|title=Deborah Biggers '75 Elected District Court Judge in Alabama|website=Fisk University|access-date=January 6, 2015|language=en-US}}

|Alabama Fifth Judicial Circuit (2014– )

|Alabama

|active

|Loretta Copeland Biggs{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394721|title=Loretta Copeland Biggs|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina (2014– )

|North Carolina

|active

|A. A. Birch Jr.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110827/NEWS/308270045/Justice-A-Birch-Jr-left-imprint-state-judiciary|title=Justice A.A. Birch Jr. left imprint on state judiciary (2011-08-27)|website=The Tennessean|language=en-US}}

|Tennessee Court of Appeals (1987–1990); Supreme Court of Tennessee (1990–2001)

|Tennessee

|deceased

|Fannie Birckhead{{Cite news |last=Gates |first=Deborah |date=2002-12-22 |title=NAACP: Lower Shore chapters focus on politics, housing |pages=4 |work=The Daily Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-times-naacp-lower-shore-chapt/127595376/ |access-date=2023-07-15 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |last=Gates |first=Deborah |date=2002-11-15 |title=Activist seeks to oust NAACP president |pages=2 |work=The Daily Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-times-activist-seeks-to-oust-n/127595218/ |access-date=2023-07-15}}

|Worcester County Orphans' Court (1998–2002)

|Maryland

|deceased

|Kea S. Bird-Riley{{Cite web |title=Division 27 - Judge Kea S. Bird-Riley - 16th Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri |url=https://www.16thcircuit.org/division-27-judge-kea-s-bird-riley |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=www.16thcircuit.org}}

|16th Circuit Court (2020– )

|Missouri

|active

|Andre Birotte Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394611|title=Andre Birotte Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Central District of California (2014– )

|California

|active

|Ollie B. Bivins Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mlive.com/flintjournal/people/2008/01/ollie_bivins.html|title=Ollie B. Bivins Jr.: Georgia native ruled with passion in two Genesee County courts|website=Michigan LIVE (January 3, 2008)|date=January 31, 2008|language=en-US}}

|Flint Municipal Court (1969–1972); Genesee County Circuit Court (1972–1982)

|Michigan

|deceased

|Charnelle Bjelkengren{{Cite web|url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/apr/10/inslee-appoints-first-female-african-american-judg/|title=Gov. Inslee appoints first female African American judge in Eastern Washington to Spokane County Superior Court|website=The Spokesman-Reviewl|access-date=April 10, 2019|language=en-US}}

|Spokane County Superior Court (2019– )

|Washington

|active

|Stuart Black{{Cite web|url=https://www.themorningsun.com/news/black-elected-isabella-county-probate-judge/article_77f184be-e25e-11e8-bf55-ebe1b62a253e.html|title=Black elected Isabella County probate judge (2018-11-07)|website=The Morning Sun|date=November 7, 2018|language=en-US}}

|Isabella County Probate Court (2018– )

|Michigan

|active

|Carolyn Wade Blackett{{Cite web |title=Milestones « Ben F. Jones Chapter of the National Bar Association |url=http://benfjones.com/about-us/milestones/ |access-date=2020-03-05 |website=benfjones.com}}

|Shelby County Criminal Court (1994– )

|Tennessee

|active

|Jerry W. Blackwell{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/12916001|title=Blackwell, Jerry Wayne|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=2022-12-14|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Minnesota (2022– )

|Minnesota

|active

|Juanita Boger-Allen{{Cite web|url=https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/-it-s-a-calling-cabarrus-county-swears-in-first-african-american-district-judge/897454670/|title='It's a calling': Cabarrus County swears in first African-American district judge|last=Barber|first=Mark|website=WSOC|date=January 2019|language=en-US|access-date=January 24, 2020}}

|Cabarrus County District Court (2019– )

|North Carolina

|active

|Kyra Harris Bolden{{Cite web |date=January 2, 2023 |title=Kyra Harris Bolden, great-granddaughter of lynching victim, becomes first Black woman justice on Michigan Supreme Court |website=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/01/02/kyra-harris-bolden-michigan-supreme-court-first-black-woman-justice-harlow-dnt-cnntm-contd-ldn-vpx.cnn |access-date=January 9, 2023 |language=en}}

|Michigan Supreme Court (2023– )

|Michigan

|active

|Victor Allen Bolden{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394681|title=Victor Allen Bolden|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (2014– )

|Connecticut

|active

|Jane Bolin{{Cite web|url=https://www.nhregister.com/opinion/article/Remembering-Jane-Bolin-the-first-13649113.php|title=Remembering Jane Bolin, the first African-American female judge in the U.S.|date=February 27, 2019|website=New Haven Register|access-date=January 24, 2020}}

|New York City Domestic Relations Court (1939–1978)

|New York

|deceased

|Gia G. Bosley{{Cite web|title=Six Receive Judgeships on Los Angeles Superior Court|url=http://www.metnews.com/articles/2017/appointments122617.htm|access-date=2022-02-20|website=www.metnews.com}}

|Los Angeles County Superior Court (2017– )

|California

|active

|Richard F. Boulware{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/boulware-richard-franklin-ii|title=Richard Franklin Boulware II|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Nevada (2014– )

|Nevada

|active

|Colin T. Bowen{{Cite web|url=https://www.acbanet.org/news/acba-board-member-colin-bowen-and-patrick-mckinney-appointed-to-the-bench/|title=ACBA Board Member Colin Bowen and Patrick McKinney Appointed to the Superior Court of California, Alameda County|website=ACBA|date=December 17, 2018|access-date=February 11, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Alameda County Superior Court (2018– )

|California

|active

|Robert Bowers{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/solano-news/fairfield/stashyn-bowers-take-leadership-roles-in-solano-courts/|title=Stashyn, Bowers take leadership roles in Solano courts|date=July 25, 2019|website=Daily Republic|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|Solano County Superior Court (2003– )

|California

|active

|Amos E. Bowman{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mtcDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA82|title=Negro Judgeships at Record High|website=Ebony Magazine|date=July 1962|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US}}

|New York City Magistrates’ Court

|New York

|deceased

|Susan Bragg{{Cite web|url=https://oklahoman.com/article/2904332/district-judge-dies-at-home-after-fight-with-cancer-at-56|title=District judge dies at home after fight with cancer at 56

|website=The Oklahoman|date=July 19, 2005

|access-date=July 19, 2005|language=en-US}}

|Oklahoma County District Court (1988–1999); Oklahoma Seventh District Court (1999–2005)

|Oklahoma

|deceased

|Henry Bramwell{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1378166|title=Bramwell, Henry|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=2021-07-20|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1974–2010)

|New York

|deceased

|William McKinley Branch{{Cite web|url=https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/DA/20140115/News/605145494/TL|title=Civil rights figure, first black probate judge William McKinley Branch dies in Alabama at 95|website=TuscaloosaNews.com|access-date=January 15, 2014|language=en-US}}

|Greene County Probate Court (appt. 1970)

|Alabama

|deceased

|George Bridges{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/ct-lns-lake-county-judges-retire-st-0112-20160111-story.html|title=Veteran Lake County judges announce plans to retire|last=Newton|first=Jim|website=chicagotribune.com|access-date=January 25, 2020}}

|Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court First Subcircuit (2012–2016)

|Illinois

|retired

|Cristal C. Brisco

|St. Joseph County Superior Court (2021–2024); United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana (2024– )

|Indiana

|active

|Vernon S. Broderick{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394271|title=Vernon S. Broderick|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (2013– )

|New York

|active

|Margo Kitsy Brodie{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393901|title=Margo Kitsy Brodie|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2012– )

|New York

|active

|Alicia Brooks{{Cite web|url=https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article237576034.html|title=Two black NC judges lost races under new districts. They're fighting the change.|date=November 21, 2019|website=Charlotte Observer|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191122153034/https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article237576034.html|archive-date=November 22, 2019}}

|North Carolina District Court (elect. 2014)

|North Carolina

|lost reelection

|Claudette Brooks{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P1trDR8H9bQC&pg=PA379|title=My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York Times|last=Boyd|first=Gerald M.|date=February 2010|publisher=Chicago Review Press|isbn=978-1-56976-558-6|language=en}}

|{{nowrap|Alameda County Superior Court (Referee: 1989–1997; Commissioner: 1997– )}}

|California

|deceased

|Allen Broussard{{Cite web|url=https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt0v19n4dr;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=d0e144&toc.id=0&brand=oac4|title=A California Supreme Court Justice Looks at Law and Society, 1964–1996|website=oac.cdlib.org|access-date=February 12, 2020}}

|Supreme Court of California (1981–1991)

|California

|deceased

|Aaron Brown Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://law.lclark.edu/live/news/33832-tribute-to-oregon-judge-aaron-brown-59|title=Tribute to Oregon Judge Aaron Brown '59|last1=Lewis|last2=Portl|language=en|access-date=January 23, 2020}}

|Portland Municipal Court (1968–1971); Multnomah County District Court (1971–1995)

|Oregon

|deceased

|Ada E. Brown{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/7049261|title=Brown, Ada Elene|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=October 29, 2021|language=en-US}}

|Dallas County Criminal Court (2005–2007); Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas (2013–2019); United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|Debra M. Brown{{Cite web|url= https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394306|title=Debra M. Brown|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi (2013– )

|Mississippi

|active

|F. Keith Brown{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-07-10-9103180368-story.html|title=Elgin Attorney Is 1st Black Named to the Kane County Bench|last=Kendall|first=Peter|website=chicagotribune.com|language=en-US|access-date=January 25, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20140701/news/140709917/|title=First black judge in Kane County set to retire|last=Hitzeman|first=Harry|date=July 1, 2014|website=Daily Herald|language=en-US|access-date=January 25, 2020}}

|Illinois 16th Judicial Circuit (1991–2014)

|Illinois

|retired

|George H. Brown{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/brown-george-henry-jr-1939/|title=George Henry Brown, Jr. (1939– )|website=BlackPast.org|date=March 25, 2018|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Supreme Court of Tennessee (1980–1982)

|Tennessee

|lost reelection

|Harry C. Brown{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wLMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA25|title=First Black Probate Judge Elected in S. Carolina (1987-02-16)|website=Jet Magazine|language=en-US|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|date=February 16, 1987}}{{Cite web |date=November 8, 1999 |title=IN RE: Harry C. BROWN (1999) |url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/sc-supreme-court/1369841.html |access-date=November 11, 2023 |website=FindLaw}}

|Jasper County Probate Court (appt. 1987–1997)

|South Carolina

|suspended

|Homer S. Brown{{Cite web|url=http://www.acba.org/Homer-S-Brown-Biography|title=Homer S. Brown Biography|website=Allegheny County Bar Association|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

| Allegheny County Court (1949–1975)

|Pennsylvania

|deceased

|Janice Rogers Brown[https://www.pbs.org/now/politics/brown.html PBS NOW: Janice Rogers Brown's Record]

|California Supreme Court (1996–2005); United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (2005–2017)

|Washington, D.C.

|retired

|Larry Brown Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thetimesnews.com/news/20171027/new-district-court-judge-brown-is-first-for-alamance|title=New District Court Judge Brown is a first for Alamance|last=Groves|first=Isaac|website=The Times-News|language=en|access-date=January 24, 2020}}

|Alamance County District Court (2017– )

|North Carolina

|active

|Nannette Jolivette Brown{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/brown-nannette-jolivette|title=Brown, Nannette Jolivette|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 24, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (2011– )

|Louisiana

|active

|Ronnisha Bowman{{Cite web|title=Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 2|url=https://www.ccl.hctx.net/criminal/2/default.htm|access-date=2022-02-25|website=www.ccl.hctx.net}}

|Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 2 (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|Yvette McGee Brown{{Cite web|url=http://www.ohiochannel.org/MediaLibrary/Media.aspx?fileId=128602|title=Supreme Court of Ohio Swearing-In Ceremony: Justice Yvette McGee Brown (2011-01-08)|website=The Ohio Channel|language=en-US}}

|Franklin County Court of Common Pleas (1993–2002); Supreme Court of Ohio (2011–2012)

|Ohio

|term ended

|Vanessa Lynne Bryant{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1392556|title=Vanessa Lynne Bryant|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (2007– )

|Connecticut

|active

|Wanda G. Bryant{{Cite web|url=https://www.nccourts.gov/judicial-directory/wanda-bryant|title=Wanda Bryant {{!}} North Carolina Judicial Branch|website=www.nccourts.gov|access-date=February 19, 2020}}

|North Carolina Court of Appeals (2001–2020)

|North Carolina

|retired

|William B. Bryant{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1378486|title=Bryant, William Benson|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 3, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1965–1982)

|Washington, D.C.

|deceased

|Frank Burgess{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1378566|title=Burgess, Franklin D.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 3, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Western District of Washington (1981–2010)

|Washington, D.C.

|deceased

|Rhonda N. Burgess{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.com/almID/1202423700636/|title=Rhonda Burgess|last=Hill|first=Evan|date=August 12, 2008|website=Law.com|language=en|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200116045218/https://www.law.com/almID/1202423700636/|archive-date=January 16, 2020|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Superior Court of Alameda County (Commissioner: 2003–2007; Judge: 2007– )

|California

|active

|Lillian W. Burke{{Cite web|url=https://www.cleveland.com/obituaries/2012/03/lillian_w_burke_was_ohios_firs.html|title=Lillian W. Burke, 94, was Ohio's first black woman judge: news obituary (2012-03-29)|website=Cleveland.com|date=March 29, 2012|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Cleveland Municipal Court (1969–1987)

|Ohio

|deceased

|Sharon M. Burney{{Cite web|title=Sharon M. Burney {{!}} Prevention Institute|url=https://www.preventioninstitute.org/about/people/sharon-m-burney|access-date=2022-02-25|website=www.preventioninstitute.org}}

|Precinct 7, Place 2 in Harris County (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|Margaret Burnham{{Cite web|url=https://www.northeastern.edu/law/faculty/directory/burnham.html|title=Faculty Directory: Margaret A. Burnham|website=Northeastern University School of Law|access-date=January 27, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Boston Municipal Court (1977–1982)

|Massachusetts

|resigned

|Garland E. Burrell Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1378611|title=Garland Ellis Burrell Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of California (1992– )

|California

|inactive

|Sharon V. Burrell{{Cite web|url=https://thedailyrecord.com/2018/09/20/female-judges-overcame-challenges-to-breakdown-barriers/|title=Female judges overcame challenges to break down barriers (2018-09-20)|website=The Daily Record|date=September 20, 2018|language=en-US}}

|Circuit Court for Montgomery County (2008– )

|Maryland

|active

|Louis B. Butler{{Cite news|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29025980/paul_b_higginbotham_born_1954/|title= Higginbotham Ending Judicial Career|newspaper=The Post-Crescent|date= May 19, 2016|pages= A9|access-date=May 19, 2016|language=en-US}}

|Wisconsin Circuit Court, Branch 9 (2002–2004); Wisconsin Supreme Court (2004–2008)

|Wisconsin

|term expired

|Tjuana Byrd{{Cite web|title=Tjuana C. Byrd B.A.'91|url=https://www.arkansasalumni.org/s/1429/bp20/interior.aspx?sid=1429&gid=1&pgid=6152&cid=14192|access-date=2022-02-26|website=www.arkansasalumni.org|language=en}}

|Sixth Circuit Court (2021– )

|Arkansas

|active

|Rupert Byrdsong{{Cite web|title=Brown Names 15 Judges, Eight of Them in Los Angeles County|url=http://www.metnews.com/articles/2014/appt061914.htm|access-date=2022-02-20|website=www.metnews.com}}

|Los Angeles County Superior Court (2014– )

|California

|active

|Chinhayi Cadet{{Cite web |date=2021-07-10 |title=Governor Newsom Announces Judicial Appointments 7.9.21 |url=https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/07/09/governor-newsom-announces-judicial-appointments-7-9-21/ |access-date=2022-08-25 |website=California Governor |language=en}}

|San Mateo County Superior Court (2021– )

|California

|active

|Clyde S. Cahill Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1378711/1384851|title=Cahill, Clyde S.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 24, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (1980–2004)

|Missouri

|deceased

|Victoria Marie Calvert{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/11690376|title=Calvert, Victoria Marie|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 24, 2022|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (2022– )

|Georgia

|active

|Gloria J. Cannon{{Cite web|url=https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/naacp-honors-kern-countys-first-african-american-judge|title=NAACP honors Kern County's first African-American female judge|first=Reyna |last=Harvey|date=July 9, 2017|website=KBAK|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|Kern County Superior Court (2017– )

|California

|active

|Larry Card{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/honorable-larry-card|title=The Honorable Larry Card|website=The HistoryMakers|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Superior Court of Alaska (1993–2017)

|Alaska

|retired

|Donine Carrington Martin{{Cite web|url=https://thedailyrecord.com/2018/09/20/female-judges-overcame-challenges-to-breakdown-barriers/|title=Female judges overcame challenges to break down barriers (2018-09-20)|website=The Daily Record|date=September 20, 2018|language=en-US}}

|Charles County Circuit Court (2017– )

|Maryland

|active

|George Carroll{{Cite web|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/01/14/george-carroll-dies-was-first-black-richmond-mayor-and-contra-costa-county-judge/|title=George Carroll dies; was first black Richmond mayor and Contra Costa County judge|date=January 15, 2016|website=The Mercury News|language=en-US|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|Contra Costa Municipal Court (1965–1982)

|California

|deceased

|Andrew L. Carter Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393866|title=Andrew L. Carter Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2011– )

|New York

|active

|Geoffrey N. Carter

|Alameda County Municipal Court (1988–1998); Alameda County Superior Court (Commissioner: 1998–2013){{Cite web |title=Geoffrey N Carter {{!}} Transparent California |url=https://transparentcalifornia.com/pensions/2019/alameda-county-pension/geoffrey-n-carter/https://transparentcalifornia.com/pensions/2019/alameda-county-pension/geoffrey-n-carter/ |access-date=2024-05-07 |website=transparentcalifornia.com}}

|California

|retired

|Robert L. Carter{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1378916|title=Carter, Robert Lee|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 4, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1972–2012)

|New York

|deceased

|Joan S. Cartwright{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Wilson-Appoints-3-Alameda-County-Judges-2972370.php|title=Wilson Appoints 3 Alameda County Judges|date=August 6, 1996|website=SFGate|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Alameda County Superior Court (1996–2014)

|California

|retired

|Denise J. Casper{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393536|title=Caspher, Denis J.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 27, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (2010– )

|Massachusetts

|active

|Agnes Chappell{{Cite web|url= https://www.annistonstar.com/the_daily_home/talladega-college-hosts-opening-convocation-honoring-black-history-month-photos/collection_dd950d14-e8cc-11e6-9e3e-9353c0eec3e7.html/|title=Talladega College hosts opening convocation honoring Black History Month (photos)

|website=The Daily Home|access-date=February 1, 2017|language=en-US}}

|Birmingham Municipal Court (2002–2016); Alabama Tenth Judicial Circuit (2016– )

|Alabama

|active

|Carlos Chappelle{{Cite web|last=Braun|first=Bill|title=Carlos Chappelle to become Tulsa County's first black presiding judge|url=https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/carlos-chappelle-to-become-tulsa-countys-first-black-presiding-judge/article_7568870b-749f-5084-8ed7-66c3610b49fb.html|access-date=2022-02-05|website=Tulsa World|language=en}}

|Tulsa County District Court (1995–2015)

|Oklahoma

|died in office

|Dewayne Charleston{{Cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tamerragriffin/sandra-bland-prairie-view|title=How Sandra Bland's Historically Black College Town Is — And Isn't — Remembering Her (2015-11-07)|website=BuzzFeed.News|language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=July 7, 2009 |title=FBI |url=https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/houston/press-releases/2009/ho070709a.htm |access-date=November 11, 2023 |website=Federal Bureau of Investigation}}

|Waller County Justice of the Peace (2003-2009){{Cite web |last=Foxhall |first=Emily |date=2016-02-19 |title=Activist goes to jail for trespassing during Sandra Bland protests |url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Activist-goes-to-jail-for-trespassing-during-6840847.php |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=Houston Chronicle |language=en-US}}

|Texas

|suspended

|Sharon Chatman{{Cite web|url=https://trellis.law/judge/sharon.a.chatman|title=Judge Sharon A. Chatman|website=Trellis|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Santa Clara County Superior Court (2000–2020)

|California

|retired

|Benjamin J. Cheeks{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761911|title=Cheeks, Benjamin Jerome|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=December 20, 2024|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of California (2024– )

|California

|active

|Sammie Chess Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.greensboro.com/news/judge-retires-in-name-only/article_4ea05138-7042-50ea-b3d2-1d498e4e07f5.html|title=Judge retires in name only (2007-10-17)|website=News & Record|language=en-US}}

|North Carolina Superior Court (1971–2007)

|North Carolina

|deceased

|Wentworth Cheswell{{Cite web|url=https://aaregistry.org/story/wentworth-cheswell-one-of-new-hampshires-finest/|title=Wentworth Cheswell, one of New Hampshire's finest|website=AAREG|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Rockingham County Justice of the Peace (1805–1817)

|New Hampshire

|deceased

|J. Michelle Childs{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393286|title=J. Michelle Childs|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of South Carolina (2010–2022); United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (2022– )

|Washington, D.C.

|active

|Tanya S. Chutkan{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394546|title=Tanya S. Chutkan|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Columbia (2014– )

|Washington, D.C.

|active

|Crittenden Clark{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L1pAFXCeGZUC&pg=PA44|title=Citizens Liberty League|website=Discovering African American St. Louis: A Guide to Historic Sites|language=en-US|isbn=9781883982454|last1=Wright|first1=John Aaron|year=2002|publisher=Missouri History Museum }}

|St. Louis Justice of the Peace (appt. 1922)

|Missouri

|deceased

|Darcel D. Clark{{Cite web|url=https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/darcel-d-clark/|title=Darcel D. Clark|website=Historical Society of the New York Courts|language=en-US|access-date=February 17, 2020}}

|New York Appellate Division, First Department (2012–2015)

|New York

|resigned

|Sidney Clark{{Cite web|url=https://courts.delaware.gov/commonpleas/municipal.aspx|title=History of the Former Municipal Court of Wilmington|website=Hartford Courant|access-date=May 3, 2018|language=en-US}}

|Wilmington Municipal Court (1961–1966)

|Delaware

|resigned

|Jessica G. L. Clarke{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13408976|title=Clarke, Jessica Gloria Lynn|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 16, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (2023– )

|New York

|active

|C. Don Clay{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.com/therecorder/almID/900005496404/|title=C. Don Clay|last=Lapidario|first=Millie|date=November 20, 2007|website=The Recorder|language=en|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Alameda County Superior Court (2003– )

|California

|active

|Eric L. Clay{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1390456|title=Eric L. Clay|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1997– )

|Michigan

|active

|Jason A. Clay{{Cite web|url=https://wlaconline.org/news-events/governor-brown-appoints-three-to-the-alameda-county-superior-court-2/|title=Governor Brown appoints three to the Alameda County Superior Court {{!}} Women Lawyers of Alameda County|website=wlaconline.org|date=March 2, 2018|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Alameda County Superior Court (2018– )

|California

|active

|Denise Clayton{{Cite web|url=https://kycourts.gov/courts/coa/Pages/clayton.aspx|title=Judge Denise Clayton – Kentucky Court of Justice|website=kycourts.gov|access-date=January 25, 2020}}

|{{nowrap|Jefferson County District Court (1996–2007); Kentucky Court of Appeals (2007– 2023)}}{{Cite web |title=Bio Denise Clayton |url=https://retiredjudgesmediation.com/resumes/Bio%20Denise%20Clayton.pdf |access-date=May 6, 2024 |website=Retired Judges & Associates Mediation & Arbitration Services Inc.}}

|Kentucky

|active

|Franklin Cleckley{{Cite web|url=http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/ed8124ba05194f398d9426cc4a84dfac|title=Judge Roger L. Gregory will become the next chief judge of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals|website=The Associated Press|access-date=July 5, 2016|language=en-US}}

|Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (1994–1996)

|West Virginia

|resigned

|U. W. Clemon{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1379231|title=Clemon, U.W.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama (1980–2009)

|Alabama

|retired

|Charles N. Clevert Jr.

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (1996–2017)

|Wisconsin

|retired

|Courtney Clyburn-Pope{{Cite web|url= https://www.aikenstandard.com/news/aiken-county-gets-first-resident-judge-in-almost-years/article_b36c9154-99b6-11e9-bcae-a741c1f8a00f.html|title=Aiken County gets first resident judge in almost 80 years (2019-06-28)|website=Aiken Standard|language=en-US}}

|South Carolina Second Judicial Circuit (2019– )

|South Carolina

|active

|Lewis W. Clymer{{Cite web|url=https://molawyersmedia.com/2001/09/03/judge-lewis-w-clymer/|title=Judge Lewis W. Clymer|website=Missouri Lawyers Media|date=September 3, 2001|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Common Pleas Court for the City of Detroit (1956–1957); Recorder’s Court for the City of Detroit (1957–1977)

|Missouri

|deceased

|David H. Coar{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1379261|title=Coar, David H.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 4, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1994–2010)

|Illinois

|retired

|Ivory Cobb{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D1sDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA11|title=Ticker Tape U.S.A. (1974-11-14)|website=Jet Magazine|language=en-US|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|date=November 14, 1974}} or Ivorey Cobb{{Cite web |date=August 14, 2023 |title=New Hampshire Supreme Court Unveils Official Portrait of Judge Ivorey Cobb, the State's First African American Jurist |url=https://www.courts.nh.gov/news-and-media/new-hampshire-supreme-court-unveils-official-portrait-judge-ivorey-cobb-states-first-african-american-jurist |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=New Hampshire Judicial Branch |language=en}}

|Colebrook Superior Court (1968-1981)

|New Hampshire

|deceased

|Jia M. Cobb{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/10929791|title=Cobb, Jia Michelle|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=October 28, 2021|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Columbia (2021– )

|Washington, D.C.

|active

|E. Curtissa R. Cofield{{Cite web|url=https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Controversial-Judge-Curtissa-R-Cofield-decides-11795611.php|title=Controversial Judge Curtissa R. Cofield decides to retire in 2015|date=June 4, 2014|website=The Middletown Press|access-date=January 24, 2020}}

|New Britain District Superior Court (1991–2005)

|Connecticut

|retired

|Dena M. Coggins{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761696|title=Coggins, Deena Michaela|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=September 17, 2024|language=en-US}}

|Sacramento County Superior Court (2021–2024); United States District Court for the Eastern District of California (2024– )

|California

|active

|Harry A. Cole{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailypress.com/dailypress/bal-blackhistory-cole-story.html|title=Judge Harry A. Cole|website=dailypress.com|access-date=January 27, 2020}}

|Supreme Bench of Baltimore City (1967–1977); Maryland Court of Appeals (1977–1991)

|Maryland

|deceased

|R. Guy Cole Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1379321|title=Ransey Guy Cole Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1995– )

|Ohio

|active

|Tom Colbert{{Cite web|url=https://oklahoman.com/article/3743263/oklahomas-first-black-chief-justice-stresses-importance-of-role-models/|title=Oklahoma's first black chief justice stresses importance of role models|date=January 4, 2013|website=Oklahoman.com|language=en-US|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|Oklahoma Supreme Court (2004–2021)

|Oklahoma

|retired

|J. Carlton “J.C.” Cole{{Cite web|url=https://www.pilotonline.com/news/article_e643ba2b-2287-5367-8d27-83378bec8b81.html|title=Hertford district judge appointed to N.C. Superior Court|website=The Virginian-Pilot|access-date=September 22, 2009|language=en-US}}

|North Carolina Superior Court (2009–2021)

|North Carolina

|retired

|James H. Coleman Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/coleman-james-h-1933/|title=James H. Coleman (1933– )|website=BlackPast.org|date=March 11, 2018|access-date=January 26, 2020|language=en-US}}

|New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Court (1964–1972); Union County Court (1972–1977); New Jersey Superior Court (1978–1987); New Jersey Appellate Court (1987–1994); Supreme Court of New Jersey (1994–2003)

|New Jersey

|retired

|Myrlys Stockdale Coleman{{Cite web|url=https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/napa-court-plucks-myrlys-stockdale-coleman-from-sacramento-to-serve/article_0d0f1c23-569d-51fd-9d2a-77272b7fea4c.html|title=Napa Court plucks Myrlys Stockdale Coleman from Sacramento to serve as commissioner|website=Napa Valley Register|access-date=February 4, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Napa County Superior Court (Commissioner: 2019–2020)

Sacramento County Superior Court (Commissioner: 2020– )

|California

|active

|Sharon Johnson Coleman{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393276|title=Sharon Johnson Coleman|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2010– )

|Illinois

|active

|Curtis Lynn Collier{{Cite web|url= https://www.fjc.gov/node/1379346|title=Curtis Lynn Collier|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee (1995– )

|Tennessee

|active

|Audrey B. Collins{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1379356|title=Collins, Audrey B.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 4, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Central District of California (1994–2014); California Second District Court of Appeal, Fourth Division (2014– )

|California

|active

|Raner Collins{{Cite web|url=https://law.arizona.edu/news/2019/04/judge-raner-collins-2019-convocation-keynote|title=Alumnus, Senior United States District Judge Raner Collins Announced as the 2019 Keynote Speaker for University of Arizona Law's Convocation Ceremony|website=The University of Arizona|date=April 10, 2019|access-date=April 17, 2019|language=en-US}}

|Pima County Superior Court (Judge Pro Tem: 1985–1988; Judge: 1988–1998); United States District Court for the District of Arizona (1998–present)

|Arizona

|active

|Robert Frederick Collins{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1379361|title=Collins, Robert Frederick|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 4, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (1978–1993)

|Louisiana

|resigned

|Verda Colvin{{Cite web|last=Dunlap|first=Stanley|title=Kemp Interviews Justice Candidates In Georgia Supreme Court Makeover|url=https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/07/07/kemp-interviews-justice-candidates-in-georgia-supreme-court-makeover|access-date=January 24, 2022|website=Georgia Public Broadcasting|language=en}}

|Macon Judicial Circuit (2014–2020); Georgia Court of Appeals (2020–2021); Georgia Supreme Court (2021– )

|Georgia

|active

|Charles Swinger Conley{{Cite web|url=https://www.trenholmstate.edu/current-students/student-resources/library/collections/charles-conley-collection/|title=Charles Conley Collection|work=Trenholm State Community College|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Macon County Court of Common Pleas (elec. 1972)

|Alabama

|deceased

|C. Ellen Connally{{Cite web|url=https://www.cleveland.com/obituaries/2012/03/lillian_w_burke_was_ohios_firs.html|title=The Honorable C. Ellen Connally|website=The HistoryMakers|date=March 29, 2012|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Cleveland Municipal Court (1980–2004)

|Ohio

|deceased

|Annette Cook

|Office of Administrative Hearings

|Washington

|active

|Julian A. Cook{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1379471|title=Julian Abele Cook|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1978–2017)

|Michigan

|deceased

|Marcia G. Cooke{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1392101|title=Marcia G. Cooke|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (2004–2023)

|Florida

|deceased

|Christopher R. Cooper{{Cite web|url= https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394411|title=Cooper, Christopher Reid|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Columbia (2014– )

|Washington, D.C.

|active

|Clarence Cooper{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1379481|title=Cooper, Clarence|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 4, 2023|language=en-US}}

|Georgia Court of Appeals (1990–1994); United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (1994– )

|Georgia

|active

|James P. Cooper III{{Cite web|title=James P. Cooper, Commissioner|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/22016018|access-date=January 14, 2022|website=www.bloomberg.com}}

|Los Angeles County Superior Court (Commissioner: 2020– )

|California

|active

|LaDoris Cordell{{Cite web|url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/13007582/palo-alto-judge-ladoris-cordell-to-preside-on-foxs-you-the-jury|title=Palo Alto Judge LaDoris Cordell to Preside on Fox's 'You the Jury'|website=KQED|access-date=February 11, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Santa Clara Municipal Court (1982–1988) Santa Clara County Superior Court (1988–2011)

|California

|retired

|Gerald Council{{Cite web|url=https://www.trentonian.com/news/hispanic-mercer-county-judge-leaves-after-struggling-for-acceptance/article_435cb4a6-7710-546a-965f-dfd1ca6f662e.html|title=Hispanic Mercer County judge leaves after struggling for acceptance|website=The Trentonian|date=September 2016|access-date=January 30, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Vicinage 7 Superior Court (1998–2015)

|New Jersey

|suspended

|Michelle Williams Court{{cite web |title=Governor Appoints Six to Los Angeles County Superior Court |url=https://archive.gov.ca.gov/archive/gov39/2011/12/27/news17358/index.html |website=ca.gov |date=December 27, 2011}}

|Los Angeles County Superior Court (2012–2024); United States District Court for the Central District of California (2024– )

|California

|active

|Ronald K. Creighton{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/cccba/docs/ccl_jan2014_web/18|title=Contra Costa Lawyer January 2014|website=Issuu|language=en|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Contra Costa County Superior Court (Commissioner: 2004– )

|California

|active

|Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394846|title=Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (2016– )

|Tennessee

|active

|Kato Crews{{Cite press release |title=Bennett, Hickenlooper Celebrate Judge Kato Crews' Nomination to Serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado |date=February 22, 2023 |url=https://www.bennet.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?id=28E262A4-A064-4742-8E8A-44D7989DB6C8 |access-date=February 27, 2023}}

|United States District Court for the District of Colorado (2018– )

|Colorado

|active

|Zina Pickens Cruse{{Cite web|url=https://www.stclaircountydems.com/zina-cruse.html|title=Honorable Zina Cruse, Circuit Judge in the 20th Judicial Circuit|website=St. Clair County Bar Association|language=en-US}}

|Illinois 20th Judicial Circuit (2009– )

|Illinois

|active

|Raymond Dean Crutchley{{Cite web|url=https://law.lclark.edu/live/news/38351-governor-brown-appoints-lewis-clark-law|title=Governor Brown Appoints Lewis & Clark Law Alumnus Raymond Crutchley to Deschutes County Circuit Court|last1=Lewis|last2=Portl|website=law.lclark.edu|language=en|access-date=January 23, 2020}}

|Deschutes County Circuit Court (2018– )

|Oregon

|active

|Gordon Cuffy{{Cite web|url=https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2017/06/cuffy_appointed_5th_onondaga_county_court_judge_1st_african-american_to_hold_pos.html|title=Gordon Cuffy named 5th Onondaga County Court judge; 1st African-American to hold post (2017-06-22)|website=Syracuse.com|date=June 22, 2017|language=en-US}}

|Onondaga County Court (2017– )

|New York

|active

|Mark E. Cullers{{Cite web|url=https://www.centralvalleycf.org/mark-e-cullers/|title=Mark E. Cullers|last=Maciel|first=Laura|date=March 5, 2018|website=Central Valley Community Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Fresno County Superior Court (2015– )

|California

|active

|Taylor Culver{{Cite web|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/12/20/alameda-county-traffic-commissioner-resigns-amid-misconduct-probe/|title=Alameda County traffic commissioner resigns amid misconduct probe|date=December 20, 2016|website=The Mercury News|language=en-US|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Alameda County Superior Court (Commissioner: 2005–2016)

|California

|resigned

|Jeffrey Cummings{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13760981|title=Cummings, Jeffrey Irvine|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=September 26, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2019– )

|Illinois

|active

|Tiffany P. Cunningham{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/10376611|title=Tiffany Patrice Cunningham|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=July 20, 2021|language=en-US}}

|United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2021– )

|Washington, D.C.

|active

|Donald Cureton{{Cite web|url=https://www.meckbar.org/index.cfm?pg=bio-donald-cureton|title=Judicial Candidate Bio – Donald Cureton|website=www.meckbar.org|access-date=February 19, 2020}}

|North Carolina District Court (2011–2018)

|North Carolina

|lost reelection

|Herbert Curtis{{Cite web|url=http://venturabreeze.com/2017/02/15/retired-ventura-county-superior-court-judge-kills-girlfriend-and-himself/|title=Retired Ventura County Superior Court judge kills girlfriend and himself – Ventura Breeze|language=en-US|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|Ventura County Municipal Court (1984–1998); Ventura County Superior Court (1998–2007)

|California

|deceased

|Angelita Dalton{{Cite web|url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/angelita-dalton-is-first-black-woman-on-davidson-county-criminal-court/|title=Angelita Dalton is first black woman on Davidson County Criminal Court (2017-12-14)|website=WKRN.com|date=December 14, 2017|language=en-US}}

|Davidson County Criminal Court (2017– )

|Tennessee

|active

|Jeremy C. Daniel{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13648546|title=Daniel, Jeremy Christen|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=May 18, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2023– )

|Illinois

|active

|Wiley Young Daniel{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1379751|title=Wiley Young Daniel|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Colorado (1995–2019)

|Colorado

|deceased

|George B. Daniels{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1391106|title=George B. Daniels|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (2000– )

|New York

|active

|Hayzel Burton Daniels{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/daniels-hayzel-b-1913-1992/|title=Daniels, Hayzel B.|work=Black Pasts|date=January 19, 2007|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Phoenix City Court (appt. 1965)

|Arizona

|deceased

|Beverly Daniels-Greenberg{{Cite web|url=https://patch.com/california/piedmont/gov-brown-appoints-piedmont-man-to-alameda-county-sup4986153397|title=Gov. Brown Appoints Piedmont Man to Alameda County Superior Court Bench|date=November 22, 2012|website=Piedmont, CA Patch|language=en|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Alameda County Superior Court (Commissioner: 1996–2003; Judge: 2003–2012)

|California

|retired

|June Berry Darensburg{{Cite web|url=http://louisianajudgesnoir.org/judges-profiles/judge-june-berry-darensburg/|title=Judge June Berry Darensburg|website=Louisiana Judicial Council|language=en-US}}

| Louisiana Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court (2006– )

|Louisiana

|active

|Elvin L. Davenport{{Cite web|url=https://reuther.wayne.edu/files/UP002362.pdf|title= Elvin Davenport Papers|website= Walter P. Reuther Library|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Jackson County Circuit Court (1970–1980)

|Missouri

|deceased

|Horace A. Davenport{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesonline.com/98c8a532-9f0d-11e6-8b82-ab9c988b5be8.html|title=Montco welcomes new judge to bench (2014-01-30)|website=The Intelligence|language=en-US}}

|Montgomery County Court (1975–2003)

|Pennsylvania

|retired

|John L. Davidson{{Cite web|url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-judges-son-critical-condition-2004aug08-story.html|title=Judge's son is in critical condition|date=August 8, 2004|website=San Diego Union-Tribune|language=en-US|access-date=January 16, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/jun/30/new-sd-superior-court-judge-named-governor/|title=New SD Superior Court Judge Named by Governor|website=KPBS Public Media|date=June 30, 2010|language=en|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|San Diego Municipal Court (1994–2010)

|California

|retired

|Andre M. Davis{{Cite web|url= https://www.fjc.gov/node/1379806|title=Andre Maurice Davis|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Maryland (1995–2009); United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2009–2017)

|Maryland

|retired

|Brian J. Davis{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394341|title=Brian J. Davis|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida (2013– )

|Florida

|active

|Carlton G. Davis{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/milenkovlais/docs/saclaw_may-june__2017_web/12|title=Sacramento Lawyer Magazine May/June 2017|website=Issuu|language=en|access-date=January 16, 2020}}{{Cite web |title=Judge Carlton G. Davis |url=http://trellis.law/judge/carlton.g.davis |access-date=2024-05-07 |website=Trellis |language=en}}

|Sacramento County Superior Court (Commissioner: 2017–2020; Judge 2020– )

|California

|active

|Dedra Davis{{Cite web|title=Harris County District Courts|url=https://www.justex.net/Courts/Civil/CivilCourt.aspx?crt=20|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.justex.net}}

|Harris County District Court (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|Legrome D. Davis{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1391481|title=Legrome D. Davis|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2002– )

|Pennsylvania

|inactive

|Leland Davis III{{Cite web|last=Driscoll|first=Curtis|title=San Mateo County Superior Court gets 3 new judges|url=https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/san-mateo-county-superior-court-gets-3-new-judges/article_8869f96e-f4c8-11eb-8e01-87a23d4699c4.html|access-date=2022-02-15|website=San Mateo Daily Journal|language=en}}

|San Mateo County Superior Court (2010– )

|California

|active

|Michael J. Davis{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1379851|title=Davis, Michael J.|website=www.fjc.gov|access-date=January 25, 2020}}

|Hennepin County Municipal Court (1983–1984); Fourth Judicial District of Minnesota (1984–1994); United States District Court for the District of Minnesota (1994– )

|Minnesota

|active

|Stephanie D. Davis{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/7545481|title=Davis, Stephanie Dawkins|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=August 26, 2021|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (2016–2022); United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (2022– )

|Michigan

|active

|Terrye D. Davis{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/solano-news/fairfield/familiar-face-returns-to-solano-county-superior-court/|title=Familiar face returns to Solano County Superior Court|date=January 4, 2019|website=Daily Republic|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|Solano County Superior Court (Judge Pro Tem: 2009–2014; Judge: 2019– )

|California

|active

|Theodore Z. Davis{{Cite web|url=https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/nj-obituary-theodore-davis-superior-court-judge-camden-20200414.html|title=Retired N.J. Superior Court Judge Theodore Z. Davis, who led Camden after state takeover, dies at 86|website=Gwinnett Daily Post|access-date=July 21, 2019|language=en-US}}

|Camden County Superior Court

|New Jersey

|deceased

|Joseph Dawson III{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/9354856|title=Dawson, Joseph III|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=August 26, 2021|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of South Carolina (2020– )

|South Carolina

|active

|Charles Bernard Day{{Cite web |last=The White House: Office of the Press Secretary |date=July 21, 2010 |title=President Obama Names Two to the United States District Court |url=https://www.whitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-names-two-united-states-district-court |archive-url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-names-two-united-states-district-court |archive-date=January 20, 2017 |access-date=March 18, 2011 |website=whitehouse.gov |via=National Archives}}

|United States District Court for the District of Maryland (1997–2022)

|Maryland

|retired

|James Dean{{Cite web|url=https://www.floridabar.org/the-florida-bar-news/finally-justice-has-arrived-113-years-later-governor-reinstates-floridas-first-black-judge/|title='Finally, Justice Has Arrived': 113 Years Later, Governor Reinstates Florida's First BLack Judge|website=Florida State Bar|access-date=January 24, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Monroe County Court (appt. 1888)

|Florida

|deceased

|LaShann DeArcy Hall{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394816|title= LaShann Moutique DeArcy Hall|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2015– )

|New York

|active

|Leland G. Degrasse{{Cite web|url=https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/leland-g-degrasse/|title=Leland G. Degrasse|website=Historical Society of the New York Courts|language=en-US|access-date=February 17, 2020}}

|New York Appellate Division, First Department (2008–2015)

|New York

|retired

|Mercedes Deiz{{Cite web|url=https://www.osbar.org/publications/bulletin/05dec/heritage.html|title=Welcome to the Oregon State Bar Online|website=www.osbar.org|access-date=January 23, 2020}}

|Multnomah County Circuit Court (1972–1992)

|Oregon

|retired

|Elisha Demerson{{Cite web|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982515/|title=Oral History Interview with Elisha Demerson, June 11, 2016|website=UNT Digital Library|date=June 11, 2016|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Potter County Court (Commissioner: 1980–1986; Judge: 1986–1990)

|Texas

|term ended

|Thomas Dickens{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/10/obituaries/thomas-dickens-ex-justice-dead.html|title=THOMAS DICKENS, EX-JUSTICE, DEAD|website=New York Times|date=May 10, 1984|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US|last1=Sullivan|first1=Ronald}}

|New York State Supreme Court (ret. 1984)

|New York

|deceased

|Ursula Jones Dickson{{Cite web|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/12/27/new-judges-appointed-to-bench-in-alameda-contra-costa-counties/|title=New judges appointed to bench in Alameda, Contra Costa Counties|date=December 27, 2013|website=The Mercury News|language=en-US|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Alameda County Superior Court (2013– )

|California

|active

|Judith Nelson Dilday{{Cite web|url=https://www.baystatebanner.com/2011/11/02/icing-on-the-cake/|title=From success to shame — and back again (2018-10-24)|website=Lansing City Pulse|date=November 2, 2011|language=en-US}}

|Massachusetts Probate and Family Court Circuit (1993–2009)

|Massachusetts

|retired

|William S. Diuguid

|St. Louis Magistrates’ Court

|Missouri

|deceased

|Bernice B. Donald{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1380106|title=Donald, Bernice Bouie|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee (1995–2011); United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (2011–2023)

|Tennessee

|retired

|Earnestine Hunt Dorse{{Cite web |last=Willis |first=Hon Bernice B. Donald and LaFonda |title=Nevertheless, we persist: The history and progress of women in Shelby County judiciary {{!}} Opinion |url=https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/opinion/2021/03/30/history-groundbreaking-women-shelby-county-judiciary/7053530002/ |access-date=2022-03-03 |website=The Commercial Appeal |language=en-US}}

|Memphis City Court (1990–2019)

|Tennessee

|retired

|Dana Douglas{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/12942526|title=Douglas, Dana Marie|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=2022-12-14|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (2019–2022); United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (2022– )

|Louisiana

|active

|Michael L. Douglas{{Cite web|url=https://law.unlv.edu/admissions/prelaw-fellowship/about-justice-michael-douglas|title=About Justice Michael L. Douglas|website=UNLV School of Law|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Supreme Court of Nevada (2004–2019)

|Nevada

|retired

|Willard H. Douglas Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/2014/06/02/jean-williams-arizona-icon/9189947/|title=Willard H. Douglas, Jr., elected judge|date=February 2, 1974|website=New Journal and Guide|language=en-US}}

|Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court (appt. 1974)

|Virginia

|retired

|Gershwin A. Drain{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394036|title=Gershwin A. Drain|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (2012– )

|Michigan

|active

|Melissa R. DuBose{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761556|title=DuBose, Melissa Raye|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=September 17, 2024|language=en-US}}

|Rhode Island District Court (2019– ); United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island (2025– )

|Rhode Island

|active

|Allyson Kay Duncan{{Cite web|url=https://web.law.duke.edu/features/duncan/|title=Allyson Duncan '75 Confirmed for 4th Circuit|website=DukeLaw|access-date=January 21, 2020|language=en-US}}

|U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2003–2019)

|Virginia

|retired

|Robert Morton Duncan{{Cite web|url=https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/SCO/formerjustices/bios/duncan.asp|title=Robert Morton Duncan|website=The Supreme Court of Ohio & The Ohio Judicial System|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Supreme Court of Ohio (1969–1971); United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (1971–1974); United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (1974–1985)

|Ohio

|decreased

|Shauna Dunnings{{Cite web|url=http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/stories/from-success-to-shame-mdash-and-back-again,475?|title=Icing on the cake (2011-11-02)|website=Bay State Banner|language=en-US}}

|30th Circuit Court (2018– )

|Michigan

|active

|Linda Marie Dunson{{Cite web|title=Harris County District Courts|url=https://www.justex.net/Courts/Family/FamilyCourt.aspx?crt=56|access-date=2022-02-25|website=www.justex.net}}

|Harris County District Court (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|Joseph E. Dyer{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mtcDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA82|title=Politicians and Public Servants of the Boston-Edison Historic District|website=Boston-Edison Historical Society|date=July 1962|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US}}

|New York Domestic Relations Court

|New York

|deceased

|Anita Earls{{Cite web|url=https://www.nccourts.gov/judicial-directory/anita-earls|title=Anita Earls {{!}} North Carolina Judicial Branch|website=www.nccourts.gov|access-date=February 19, 2020}}

|Supreme Court of North Carolina (2019– )

|North Carolina

|active

|George Edgecomb{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XBdV3mx-K6QC&pg=PA1321|title=It's a Family Affair (November 1973)|website=ABA Journal|language=en-US|date=November 1973}}

|Hillsborough County Court (1973–1976)

|Florida

|deceased

|Harry T. Edwards{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1380411|title=Harry T. Edwards|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1980– )

|Washington, D.C.

|active

|Jerry Edwards Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761406|title=Edwards, Jerry, Jr.

|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=2023-12-14|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (2023– )

|Louisiana

|active

|Harry J. Elam{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/08/22/harry-elam-pioneering-black-jurist-massachusetts/xpEOsNJRo6UsbJAKDp58XM/story.html|title=Harry J. Elam Sr., 90, pioneering black jurist in Massachusetts (2012-08-22)|website=The Boston Globe|language=en-US}}

|Boston Municipal Court

|Massachusetts

|deceased

|Sara L. Ellis{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394286|title=Sara L. Ellis|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2013– )

|Illinois

|active

|Christina Elmore{{Cite web|url=https://womenslifestyle.com/history-on-the-bench-judge-christina-elmore/|title= History on the Bench: Judge Christina Elmore (2019-02-25)|website=Women’s Lifestyle|language=en-US}}

|17th Circuit Court (2019– )

|Michigan

|active

|Morrison C. England Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1391556|title= Morrison C. England Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of California (2002–2024)

|California

|retired

|Richard Erwin{{Cite web|url=http://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/henry-e-frye-1932/|title=Henry E. Frye (1932– )|website=John Locke Foundation|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina (1980–2006)

|North Carolina

|deceased

|Stacy Boulware Eurie{{Cite web|url=https://law.ucdavis.edu/profiles/boulware-eurie.html|title=UC Davis School of Law – Profiles – Stacy Boulware Eurie|website=law.ucdavis.edu|access-date=January 16, 2020}}{{Cite web |date=2022-07-01 |title=Governor Newsom Announces Judicial Appointments 7.1.22 |url=https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/07/01/governor-newsom-announces-judicial-appointments-7-1-22/ |access-date=2024-05-07 |website=Office of Governor of California |language=en}}

|Sacramento County Superior Court (2007–2022) Third District Court of Appeal (2022– )

|California

|active

|Kelli Evans{{Cite web |date=November 29, 2022 |title=Black Justices Bring Diverse Experiences to California Supreme Court |url=https://sacobserver.com/2022/11/black-justices-bring-diverse-experiences-to-california-supreme-court/ |access-date=January 9, 2023 |website=The Sacramento Observer |language=en-US}}

|California Supreme Court (2023– )

|California

|active

|Stephen Everett{{Cite web|url=https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/first-black-male-judge-appointed-to-leon-county-circuit-court|title=First Black male Circuit Judge appointed to the Second Judicial Circuit (2019-05-17)|website=WTXL Tallahasseel|date=May 17, 2019|language=en-US}}

|Florida Second Judicial Circuit (2019– )

|Florida

|active

|Charles S. Farmer{{Cite web|url=https://www.historicbostonedison.org/Politicians-of-BE|title=Otis Smith|website=Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Detroit Common Pleas Court (1961–1965); Wayne County Circuit Court (elec. 1965)

|Michigan

|deceased

|Walter M. Farmer{{Cite web|url=https://blackthen.com/walter-m-farmer-first-african-american-serve-judicial-capacity-missouri/|title=Walter M. Farmer: First African AMerican to Serve in a Judicial Capacity in Missouri|website=Black Then|date=January 13, 2021|language=en-US}}

|St. Louis Municipal Court

|Missouri

|deceased

|Charlye O. Farris{{Cite web|url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=128699/|title=Charlye Ola Farris (1929–2010)|website=Historical Marker Database|language=en-US|access-date=January 22, 2020}}

|Special Wichita County Court (appt. 1954); Texas 78th District Court (1973)

|Texas

|deceased

|Joseph Jerome Farris

|United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1979–2020)

|Washington

|deceased

|Henry C. Ferguson{{Cite web|url=https://cookcountybar.org/about-us/history/centennial-milestones|title=Centennial Milestones—Milestones 1869–1899: Players on the Stage of History...|website=Cook County Bar Association|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Chicago Municipal Court (elec. 1951)

|Illinois

|deceased

|Marshall Ferguson

|King County Superior Court (2018– )

|Washington

|active

|Wilkie D. Ferguson{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1380681/|title=Ferguson, Wilkie D.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 24, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Florida Industrial Claims Court (1973–1977); 11th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida (1977–1981); Florida Third District Court of Appeal (1980–1993); United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (1993–2003)

|Florida

|deceased

|Arthur S. Fickling{{Cite journal|url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/howlj22&div=17&id=&page=/|title=Austin L. Fickling: A Memorial and Retrospective|journal=Howard Law Journal|year=1979|volume=22|page=169|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US|last1=Andrews|first1=Dale C.|last2=Mintz|first2=Lawrence A.}}

|District of Columbia Court of Appeals (1968–1977)

|Washington, D.C.

|deceased

|Bernard R. Fielding Sr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.charlestonchronicle.net/2017/02/08/s-c-s-first-black-probate-judge-notes-that-black-historys-discrimination-continues-into-modern-times/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115023057/https://www.charlestonchronicle.net/2017/02/08/s-c-s-first-black-probate-judge-notes-that-black-historys-discrimination-continues-into-modern-times/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 15, 2019|title=S.C.'s First Black Probate Judge Notes That Black History's Discrimination Continues Into Modern Times (2017-02-08)|website=The Chronicle|language=en-US}}

|Charleston County Probate Court (1976–1995)

|South Carolina

|lost reelection

|Richard Fields{{Cite web|url=https://www.pe.com/articles/fields-821641-court-judge.html|title=Here's the latest Inland judge appointments|date=December 23, 2016|website=Press Enterprise|language=en-US|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|Riverside County Superior Court (Commissioner: 1991–2000; Judge: 2000–2017); California Fourth Appellate District (2017– )

|California

|active

|Richard E. Fields{{Cite web|url=https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess122_2017-2018/bills/1008.htm|title=A Senate Resolution: To Honor and Recognize Judge Richard E. Fields For His Lifetime of Service and Enduring Contributions to the State of South Carolina| date=2018-02-13

|website=South Carolina General Assembly|language=en-US}}

|Charleston Municipal Court (1969–1980); South Carolina Circuit Court (1980–1992)

|South Carolina

|retired

|Kelvin D. Filer{{Cite web |title=2021 Unsung Hero Honorees {{!}} Legislative Black Caucus |url=https://blackcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/2021-unsung-heroes#:~:text=Los%20Angeles%20Superior%20Court%20Judge,of%20Arts%20degree%20in%201977. |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=blackcaucus.legislature.ca.gov}}

|Los Angeles Municipal Court (Commissioner: 1993–2002); Los Angeles County Superior Court (2002– )

|California

|active

|Toria J. Finch{{Cite news|title=Meet 'Black Girl Magic,' The 19 African-American Women Elected As Judges In Texas|language=en|work=NPR.org|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/685815783/meet-black-girl-magic-the-19-african-american-women-elected-as-judges-in-texas|access-date=2022-02-25}}

|Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 9 (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|Ernest A. Finney Jr.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/obituaries/ernest-finney-jr-rights-lawyer-in-jail-not-bail-case-dies-at-86.html|title=Ernest Finney Jr., Rights Lawyer in 'Jail, Not Bail' Case, Dies at 86 (2017-12-07)|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 7, 2017|language=en-US|last1=Roberts|first1=Sam}}

|Supreme Court of South Carolina (1985–2000)

|South Carolina

|retired

|Arthur O. Fisher{{Cite web|url=https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/who-was-arthur-fisher-meet-the-bombardier-prosecutor-judge-and-trailblazer/i62IabqcdC3AA5v6iAOm8O/|title=Who was Arthur O. Fisher? Meet the bombardier, prosecutor, judge and trailblazer|website=Dayton Daily News|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Dayton Municipal Court (1961–1970); Montgomery County Common Pleas Court (Domestic Relations) (elec. 1970)

|Ohio

|deceased

|Judith D. Ford{{Cite web|url=http://bwlnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/The-Honorable-Judith-D.-Ford.pdf|title=The Honorable Judith D. Ford|website=BWLNC}}

|Alameda County Municipal Court (1982–1998); Alameda County Superior Court (1998–2002)

|California

|retired

|Arthur Fisher{{Cite web|url= https://dayton247now.com/news/local/two-miami-valley-men-make-history-as-the-first-african-americans-in-their-positions|title=Two Miami Valley men make history as the first African Americans in their positions (2019-01-15)|website=Dayton News|date=January 15, 2019|language=en-US}}

|Dayton Municipal Court (1961–1970); Montgomery County Common Pleas Court (1970–1994)

|Ohio

|deceased

|Lewis S. Flagg Jr.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/10/nyregion/dean-of-black-brooklyn-politics-a-power-at-85.html|title=Dean of Black Brooklyn Politics a Power at 85|website=New York Times|date=October 10, 1982|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US|last1=Rule|first1=Sheila}}

|Brooklyn Municipal Court (elect. 1953)

|New York

|deceased

|James C. Flanigan{{Cite web|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2008/09/02/lawyer-broke-race-barrier-to-become-judge/|title=Lawyer broke race barrier to become judge|website=Denver Post|date=September 2, 2008|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Denver District Court (elec. 1964)

|Colorado

|deceased

|Charles E. Fleming{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/11442241|title=Fleming, Charles Esque|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=February 3, 2022|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (2022– )

|Ohio

|active

|Andrea Flint{{Cite web|title=Judicial Profile: Santa Clara County Judge Andrea Flint|url=https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/judicial-profile-santa-clara-county-judge-andrea-flint|access-date=August 17, 2021|website=California Courts Newsroom|language=en}}

|Santa Clara County Superior Court (2010– )

|California

|active

|Marquette Floyd{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/portrait-honors-suffolk-s-first-black-judge-1.3592305|title=Portrait honors Suffolk's first black judge|last1=Smith|first1=Andrew|website=Newsday|language=en|access-date=January 24, 2020}}

|Suffolk District Court (1969–1989); Supreme Court of New York (appt. 1989)

|New York

|retired

|Maurice B. Foley{{Cite web |title=Judge Maurice B. Foley - Adjunct Faculty |url=https://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=254 |access-date=September 26, 2024 |website=lawweb.colorado.edu}}

|United States Tax Court (1995–2010); (2011– )

|Washington, D.C.

|active

|Geraldine Bledsoe Ford{{Cite web|url=https://milawyersweekly.com/news/2003/10/13/judge-geraldine-bledsoe-ford-76/|title=Judge Geraldine Bledsoe Ford, 76 (2003-10-13)|website=The Michigan Lawyers Weekly|date=October 13, 2003|language=en-US}}

|Michigan Recorder's Court (1966–1998)

|Michigan

|deceased

|John Thomas Fowlkes Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394021|title=John Thomas Fowlkes Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee (2012– )

|Tennessee

|active

|Ramona Franklin{{Cite web|title=Harris County District Courts|url=https://www.justex.net/Courts/Criminal/CriminalCourt.aspx?crt=46|access-date=2022-02-25|website=www.justex.net}}

|Harris County District Court (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|Robert V. Franklin Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.toledoblade.com/news/deaths/2011/11/30/Robert-V-Franklin-Jr-1926-2011-Retired-judge-broke-race-barrier-in-2-courts/stories/201111300088|title=Robert V. Franklin, Jr., 1926–2011|website=Toledo Blade|language=en|access-date=February 17, 2020}}

|Toledo Municipal Court (appt. 1960); Lucas County Common Pleas Court (appt. 1968)

|Ohio

|deceased

|Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/11226131|title=Frimpong, Maame Ewusi-Mensah|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=December 24, 2021|language=en-US}}

|Los Angeles County Superior Court (2015–2021); United States District Court for the Central District of California (2021– )

|California

|active

|Shannon Frison{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegram.com/news/20190909/worcester-superior-court-judge-shannon-frison-charged-with-domestic-assault|title=Worcester Superior Court Judge Shannon Frison charged with domestic assault|website=Telegram|access-date=September 9, 2019|language=en-US}}

|Massachusetts Superior Court (2013– )

|Massachusetts

|active

|Arianna J. Freeman{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/12588691|title=Freeman, Arianna Julia|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 8, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2022– )

|Pennsylvania

|active

|Charles E. Freeman{{Cite web|url=http://www.illinoiscourts.gov/SupremeCourt/Justices/Bio_Freeman.asp|title=Illinois Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Freeman|website=www.illinoiscourts.gov|access-date=February 20, 2020}}

|Cook County Circuit Court (1976–1986); Illinois Supreme Court (1990–2018)

|Illinois

|retired

|Juanita Freeman{{Cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/dayton-appoints-first-black-judge-in-washington-county/495322741/|title=New Washington County judge makes history|website=Star Tribune|access-date=January 25, 2020}}

|Minnesota Tenth Judicial District (2018– )

|Minnesota

|active

|Teneka Frost{{Cite web|url=https://dailygazette.com/article/2018/01/02/mccarthy-appoints-first-black-city-court-judge|title=Schenectady's first black City Court judge sworn in (2018-01-02)|website=The Daily Gazette|date=January 2, 2018 |language=en-US}}

|Schenectady City Court (2018– )

|New York

|active

|Henry Frye{{Cite web|url=http://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/henry-e-frye-1932/|title=Henry E. Frye (1932– )|website=John Locke Foundation|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

|North Carolina Supreme Court (1983–2001)

|North Carolina

|term ended

|Fernando J. Gaitan Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1381006|title=Fernando J. Gaitan Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (1991– )

|Missouri

|active

|Leslie Abrams Gardner{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394646|title=Leslie Abrams Gardner|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia (2014– )

|Georgia

|active

|Sherilyn Peace Garnett{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/11871476|title=Sherilyn Peace Garnett|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=May 20, 2022|language=en-US}}

|Los Angeles County Superior Court (2014–2022); United States District Court for the Central District of California (2022– )

|California

|active

|Carla Garrett{{Cite web|title=Judicial Profile: Los Angeles County Judge Carla Garrett|url=https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/judicial-profile-los-angeles-county-judge-carla-garrett|access-date=November 8, 2021|website=California Courts Newsroom|language=en}}

|Los Angeles County Superior Court (2020– )

|California

|active

|Ramona Garrett{{Cite web|url=https://law.ucdavis.edu/profiles/garrett.html|title=UC Davis School of Law – Profiles – Judge Ramona J. Garrett|website=law.ucdavis.edu|date=January 4, 2010 |access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|Solano County Municipal Court (1992–1997); Solano County Superior Court (1997–2015)

|California

|retired

|Darrin P. Gayles{{Cite web|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/06/17/4183778/miamis-gayles-confirmed-as-first.html|title=Miami's Gayles confirmed as first openly gay black male judge on federal bench (2014-06-17)|website=Miami Herald|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (2014– )

|Florida

|active

|John D. Geathers{{Cite web|title=SC Judicial Department|url=https://www.sccourts.org/appeals/displayJudge.cfm?judgeID=1137|access-date=2022-02-26|website=www.sccourts.org}}

|South Carolina Court of Appeals (2008– )

|South Carolina

|active

|Albert B. George{{Cite web|url=https://cookcountybar.org/about-us/history/centennial-milestones|title=Centennial Milestones {{!}} Cook County Bar Association|website=cookcountybar.org|access-date=January 25, 2020}}

|Illinois Municipal Courts (elec. 1924)

|Illinois

|deceased

|Mifflin Wistar Gibbs{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/mifflin-wistar-gibbs-1657/|title=Mifflin Wistar Gibbs (1823–1915) |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Arkansas|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Little Rock Police Court (1873–1875)

|Arkansas

|deceased

|Benjamin F. Gibson{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/10376611|title=Gibson, Benjamin F.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 8, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan (1979–1999)

|Michigan

|retired

|James T. Giles{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1381231|title=Giles, James Tyrone|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 8, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1979–2008)

|Pennsylvania

|retired

|Patricia Tolliver Giles{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/10929801|title=Giles, Patricia Tolliver|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=October 28, 2021|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (2021– )

|Virginia

|active

|Earl Ben Gilliam{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1381246|title=Gillam, Earl Ben|website=www.fjc.gov|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|San Diego Municipal Court (1963–1975); San Diego County Superior Court (1975–1980); United States District Court for the Southern District of California (1980–2001)

|California

|deceased

|Haywood Gilliam{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394746|title=Haywood Gilliam|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of California (2014– )

|California

|active

|Vanessa Gilmore{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1381261|title=Vanessa Gilmore|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (1994–2022)

|Texas

|retired

|Walter H. Gladwin{{Cite journal|url=https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/firsts/9/|title=Walter Gladwin, Class of 1941, First Black Assemblyman in the Bronx|journal=Nyls "Firsts"|date=August 14, 2015|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Bronx Criminal Court

|New York

|deceased

|Luther T. Glanton Jr.{{Cite web|url=http://uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DetailsPage.aspx?id=140|title=Glanton, Luther T., Jr. (January 18, 1910 – July 4, 1991)|website=The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Des Moines Municipal Court (1958–1973); Iowa District Court (1973–1985)

|Iowa

|retired

|Robert D. Glass{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.uconn.edu/calendar/event/2017/11/01/legacy-hon-robert-glass-first-african-american-connecticut-supreme-court|title=The Legacy of the Hon. Robert Glass: The First African-American Connecticut Supreme Court Justice|date=October 19, 2017|website=UConn School of Law|language=en|access-date=January 24, 2020}}

|Waterbury Superior Court (1978–1987); Supreme Court of Connecticut (1987–1992)

|Connecticut

|deceased

|Carmen Julia Lynn Goodman{{Cite web|url=https://pview.findlaw.com/view/2390835_1|title=Hon. Carmen Julia Lynn Goodman – a Joliet, Illinois (IL) Lawyer|website=pview.findlaw.com|access-date=January 25, 2020}}

|Illinois Twelfth Circuit Court (2007– )

|Illinois

|active

|Edward Gourdin{{Cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2002/02-15/connect.htm|title=Edward Gourdin: Olympic silver medalist, but a man of firsts (2002-02-15)|website=B.U. Bridge|language=en-US}}

|Roxbury District Court (1951–1958); Massachusetts Superior Court (1958–1966)

|Massachusetts

|deceased

|Donald L. Graham{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1381431|title=Donald L. Graham|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (1991– )

|Florida

|active

|Cy A. Grant Sr.{{Cite web|url= https://www.st-aug.edu/the-prezell-r-robinson-library-unveils-first-african-americans-on-the-north-carolina-bench-exhibit/|title=The Prezell R. Robinson Library Unveils "First African Americans on the North Carolina Bench" Exhibit|website=Saint Augustine’s University|date=October 22, 2019|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|North Carolina District 6B Court (appt. 1989)

|North Carolina

|active

|James E. Graves Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393611|title=James E. Graves Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Mississippi Supreme Court (2001–2011); United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (2011– )

|Mississippi

|active

|Angela Graves-Harrington{{Cite web|title=Angela LaChe' Graves Harrington|url=https://www.texasbar.com/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Find_A_Lawyer&template=/Customsource/MemberDirectory/MemberDirectoryDetail.cfm&ContactID=295081|access-date=2022-02-25|website=www.texasbar.com}}

|246th District Court, Harris County (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|Shauna Graves-Robertson{{Cite web|url=https://slco.org/justice-court/honorable-graves-robertson/|title=Honorable Graves-Robertson|website=Salt Lake County|date=January 13, 2017|access-date=January 21, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Salt Lake County Justice Court (1990– )

|Utah

|active

|Lori Chambers Gray{{Cite web|title=Harris County District Courts|url=https://www.justex.net/Courts/Criminal/CriminalCourt.aspx?crt=43|access-date=2022-02-25|website=www.justex.net}}

|Texas 262nd District Court (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|Clifford Scott Green{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1381476|title=Green, Clifford Scott|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 8, 2023|language=en-US}}

|Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County (1964–1971); United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1971–2007)

|Pennsylvania

|deceased

|Nathaniel Green Jr.{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Diversity in the Judiciary: A Directory of Judges, Commissioners, and Magistrates of Color in the State of Washington |url=https://www.courts.wa.gov/committee/pdf/2022_Diversity_in_the_Judiciary.pdf |website=Washington State Minority and Justice Commission Outreach Committee}}{{Cite web |title=Judge Nathaniel Green |url=https://kingcounty.gov/en/legacy/courts/district-court/locations/judge-green |access-date=May 6, 2024 |website=King County, Washington}}

|King County District Court (2011– )

|Washington

|active

|Samuel L. Green{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.buffalo.edu/alumni/alumni/green67.html|title=Samuel L. Green '67|website=www.law.buffalo.edu|language=en|access-date=January 24, 2020}}

|Buffalo City Court (1973–1978); Supreme Court of New York (1978–2016)

|New York

|retired

|Joseph A. Greenaway Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1381496|title=Joseph A. Greenaway Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (1996–2010); United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2010–2023)

|New Jersey

|retired

|Clayton Greene Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/29ap/html/msa12365.html|title=Clayton Greene, Jr., Maryland Court of Appeals Judge|website=msa.maryland.gov|access-date=January 27, 2020}}

|Maryland Court of Appeals (2004–2019)

|Maryland

|retired

|George Greene{{Cite web|url=https://ncheritagecalendar.com/honorees/judge-george-greene-2/|title=Judge George Greene|website=NC Heritage Calendar|access-date=January 24, 2020}}

|Wake County Court (1974–1995)

|North Carolina

|deceased

|Roger Gregory

|United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2000– )

|Virginia

|active

|Jonathan J. C. Grey{{Cite web|date=April 6, 2021|title=FEDERAL COURT NAMES NEW MAGISTRATE JUDGE|url=http://www.mied.uscourts.gov/PDFFIles/pressRelease42021.pdf|access-date=September 5, 2022|website=United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (2021– )

|Michigan

|active

|Maurice W. Grey

|New York City Magistrates' Court

|New York

|deceased

|Thomas L. Griffith{{Cite web|url=https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/21198/zz0002pg1d/|title=Thomas L. Griffith Jr. being sworn in by judges Victor Hansen and Eugene Fay, Los Angeles, Calif., 1953|website=Calisphere|date=April 1953|access-date=February 11, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Los Angeles Municipal Court (1953–1968); Los Angeles Superior Court (1968–1972)

|California

|deceased

|Lydia Kay Griggsby{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/10270716/|title=Lydia Kay Griggsby|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=June 16, 2021|language=en-US}}

|United States Court of Federal Claims (2014–2021); United States District Court for the District of Maryland (2021– )

|Maryland

|active

|Hubert Grimes{{Cite web|url=https://www.news-journalonline.com/article/LK/20131228/news/605079646/DN|title=Hubert Grimes, Volusia's first black jurist, to retire (2013-12-28)|website=FHN|language=en-US}}

|Florida 7th Judicial Circuit (1999–2013)

|Florida

|retired

|Stephanie Grogan Jones{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/solano-news/fairfield/governor-taps-deputy-public-defender-to-serve-as-solano-jurist/|title=Governor taps deputy public defender to serve as Solano jurist|date=December 13, 2018|website=Daily Republic|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|Solano County Superior Court (2019– )

|California

|active

|Pamela Gutierrez{{Cite web|url=http://justicecourts.maricopa.gov/Judges/jpWilliamsCody.aspx|title=Judge Cody Williams|website=Maricopa County Justice Courts|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Maricopa County Justice of the Peace (2003–2007)

|Alabama

|deceased

|Addeliar Dell Guy{{Cite web|url=https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1856&context=facpub|title=Blacks in the Nevada Legal Profession (Winter 2013)|website=UNLW School of Law|language=en-US}}

|Nevada Eighth Judicial District Court (1975–1996)

|Nevada

|deceased

|Ancer L. Haggerty{{Cite web|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2014/12/ancer_haggerty_presiding_judge.html|title=Ancer Haggerty, presiding judge in two notorious neo-Nazi cases in Portland, hangs up robes|work=The Oregonian|author1=Bryan Denson|author1-link=Bryan Denson|date=December 31, 2014|language=en|access-date=January 23, 2020}}

|Multnomah County District Court (1989–1990); Multnomah County Circuit Court (1990–1993); United States District Court for the District of Oregon (1994–2009)

|Oregon

|retired

|Amos T. Hall{{Cite web|url=https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=HA006|title=Hall, Amos T. (1896–1971)|date=September 5, 1997|website=Oklahoma Historical Society|language=en-US}}

|Tulsa County District Court (1969–1971)

|Oklahoma

|deceased

|Phyllis J. Hamilton{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1391151|title=Hamilton, Phyllis J.|website=www.fjc.gov|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (2001– )

|California

|active

|George C. Hanks Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394776|title=Hanks, George Carol, Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 7, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (2015– )

|Texas

|active

|Brenda Harbin-Forte{{Cite web|url=https://www.acbanet.org/2019/11/08/new-judicial-assignments-in-alameda-county/|title=New Judicial Assignments in Alameda County » Alameda County Bar Association|last=Brown Lescroart |first=Valerie |date=November 8, 2019|website=Alameda County Bar Association|language=en-US|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Alameda County Municipal Court (1992–1998); Alameda County Superior Court (1998–2019)

|California

|retired

|Eddie Hardaway Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19950111&id=UjwdAAAAIBAJ&pg=6813,3536044&hl=en|title=Circuit Judge Sworn In|date=January 11, 1995|work=The Tuscaloosa News|language=en-US}}

|Alabama Seventeenth Judicial District (1995– )

|Alabama

|active

|Lisa White Hardwick{{Cite web|url=https://www.courts.mo.gov/page.jsp?id=60263|title=Celebrating African-Americans' contributions to Missouri's justice system|website=Missouri Courts (March 5, 2013)|language=en-US}}

|Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit (2000); Missouri Court of Appeals (2001– )

|Missouri

|active

|Richard Harewood{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/harewood-richard-a-1900-1985/|title=Richard A. Harewood (1900–1985)|website=BlackPast|date=November 4, 2018|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Superior Court of Cook County (c. 1960)

|Illinois

|deceased

|John R. Hargrove Sr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mdd.uscourts.gov/biography-judge-john-r-hargrove|title=Biography of Judge John R. Hargrove {{!}} District of Maryland {{!}} United States District Court|website=www.mdd.uscourts.gov|access-date=January 28, 2020}}

|District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City (1968–1974); Supreme Bench of Baltimore City (1974–1984); United States District Court for the District of Maryland (1984–1997)

|Maryland

|deceased

|Lubbie Harper Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://jud.ct.gov/external/supapp/justice_harper.htm|title=Honorable Lubbie Harper, Jr.|website=State of Connecticut Judicial Branch|access-date=February 28, 2021|language=en-US}}

|Connecticut Superior Court (1997–2005); Connecticut Appellate Court (2005–2011); Connecticut Supreme Court (2011–2012)

|Connecticut

|retired

|Nathaniel R. Harper{{Cite web|url=http://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/735|title=Harper, Nathaniel R. · Notable Kentucky African Americans Database|website=nkaa.uky.edu|access-date=January 25, 2020}}

|Louisville Court (appt. 1888)

|Kentucky

|deceased

|Kevin D. Harrell{{Cite web |title=Division 18 - Judge Kevin D. Harrell - 16th Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri |url=https://www.16thcircuit.org/division-18-judge-kevin-d-harrell |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=www.16thcircuit.org}}

|16th Judicial Circuit Court (2012– )

|Missouri

|active

|Jeffrey L. Harris{{Cite web|url=http://www.delawaregrapevine.com/jan-mar03stories/2-03%20calvinscott.htm|title=Jeffrey L. Harris|website=Iowa Judicial Branch|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=In Memory of Jeffery Leon Harris |url=https://iowajudges.org/pdf/memorials/Harris-Memorial.pdf |access-date=May 6, 2024 |website=Iowa Judge’s Association}}

|Iowa District Court (1997–2021)

|Iowa

|deceased

|Jesse S. Harris{{Cite web|last=Jones|first=Corey|title=Retiring District Judge Jesse Harris recalls making 'something terrific' out of 'something terrible'|url=https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/retiring-district-judge-jesse-harris-recalls-making-something-terrific-out-of-something-terrible/article_6950446b-4e23-59e7-9891-d8714feda291.html|access-date=2022-02-25|website=Tulsa World|language=en}}

|District Court of Tulsa County (ret. 2014)

|Oklahoma

|retired

|John W. Harvey

|St. Louis Court

|Missouri

|deceased

| Leroy R. Hassell Sr. |Leroy R. Hassell Sr.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wric.com/Global/story.asp?S=14019081|title=Funeral held for Va's first black chief justice|website=WRIC|access-date=February 13, 2011|language=en-US}}

|Supreme Court of Virginia (1989–2011)

|Virginia

|deceased

|William H. Hastie{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/15/archives/judge-william-hastie-71-of-federal-court-dies.html|title=Judge William Hastie, 71, Of Federal Court, Dies|date=April 15, 1976|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 15, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

|United States District Court of the Virgin Islands (1937–1939); United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1949–1976)

|United States Virgin Islands

|deceased

|Alcee Hastings{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1381916|title=Hastings, Alcee Lamar|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 8, 2023|language=en-US}}

|17th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida (1977–1979); United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (1979–1989)

|Florida

|impeached

|Joseph W. Hatchett{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1381931|title=Hatchett, Joseph W.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 24, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Supreme Court of Florida (1975–1979); United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1979–1981); United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (1981–1999)

|Florida

|retired

|Terry J. Hatter Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1381941|title=Terry J. Hatter Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Los Angeles Superior Court (1977–1980); United States District Court for the Central District of California (1980– )

|California

|inactive

|William Joseph Haynes Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-24-me-passings24.3-story.html|title=Odell Horton, 77; First Modern Black Federal Judge in Tennessee (2006-02-24)|website=The Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|date=February 24, 2006}}

|United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (1984–2017)

|Tennessee

|retired

|George J. Hazel{{Cite web|url= https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394476|title=George J. Hazel|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Maryland (2014–2023)

|Maryland

|resigned

|Harry Hazelwood{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gEEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA11|title=Confirm 1st Negro Judge in Newark|date=November 20, 1958|website=Jet Magazine|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|language=en-US|access-date=February 14, 2020}}

|Newark Magistrates’ Court

|New Jersey

|deceased

|Elliott Heard Jr.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/11/obituaries/elliott-heard-jr-58-superior-court-judge.html/|title=Obituary: Elliott Heard, Jr. (1991-07-11)|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=January 26, 2020|language=en-US|date=July 11, 1991}}

|Gloucester County Court (1984–1991)

|New Jersey

|deceased

|Wanda Keyes Heard{{Cite web|url=https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/31cc/former/html/msa02817.html|title=Former Judges: Wanda Keyes Heard|website=Baltimore City Circuit Court|access-date=January 27, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Baltimore City Circuit Court, 8th Judicial Circuit (1999–2019)

|Maryland

|retired

|Thelton Henderson{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/thelton-e-henderson-center-for-social-justice/who-we-are/hon-thelton-e-henderson/|title=Hon. Thelton E. Henderson|website=Berkeley Law|language=en-US|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of California (1980– )

|California

|inactive

|William J. Hibbler{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1390936|title=Hibbler, William J.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 8, 2023|language=en-US}}

|Illinois Circuit Court, Cook County (1986–1999); United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1999–2012)

|Illinois

|deceased

|A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.[http://www.brownat50.org/BrownBios/BioJudgeHigginbotham.html Howard University biography of A. Leon Higginbotham] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051216205511/http://www.brownat50.org/brownBios/BioJudgeHigginbotham.html|date=December 16, 2005}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1964–1977); United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1977–1991); United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (1979–1986); United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1990–1993)

|Pennsylvania

|deceased

|Paul B. Higginbotham

|Madison Municipal Court (1992–1994); Dane County Superior Court (1994–2003); Wisconsin Court of Appeals (2003–2017)

|Wisconsin

|retired

|Kellie Hill{{Cite web|url= https://cobbcountycourier.com/2020/05/kellie-hill-candidate-for-superior-court-judge/|title=Kellie Hill: Candidate For Superior Court Judge|website=Cobb County Courier|date=May 26, 2020|access-date=May 26, 2020|language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Judge Kellie S. Hill - Professional Background & Legal Expertise {{!}} Trellis.Law |url=https://trellis.law/judge/kellie.s.hill |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=trellis.law}}

|Cobb County’s Magistrate Court (2016–2020) Superior Court (2021– )

|Georgia

|active

|Geraldine Hines{{Cite web|url=https://www.masslive.com/politics/2014/06/geraldine_hines_nominated_to_m.html|title=Geraldine Hines nominated to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; would become 1st black woman on state's highest court (2014-06-14)|website=Mass LIVE|date=June 14, 2014|language=en-US}}

|Massachusetts Superior Court (2001–2013); Massachusetts Appeals Court (2013–2014); Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (2014–2017)

|Massachusetts

|retired

|Kelley B. Hodge{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/12911481|title=Hodge, Kelley Brisbon|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=2022-12-14|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2022– )

|Pennsylvania

|active

|Lisa Holder White{{Cite web |date=May 10, 2022 |title=Justice Rita B. Garman announces retirement from Illinois Supreme Court; Justice Lisa Holder White to fill vacancy |url=https://ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.net/antilles-resources/resources/709b1f3a-e4c6-4bc2-8daf-2e5d51856832/Justice%20Rita%20B.%20Garman%20Announces%20Retirement.pdf |access-date=May 17, 2022}}

|Illinois Sixth Judcicial Circuit Court (2001–2013); Illinois Fourth District Appellate Court (2013–2022); Illinois Supreme Court (2022– )

|Illinois

|active

|Cassandra Y. Holleman{{Cite web|title=Cassandra Hollemon, one of the 17 black women elected as judges in Houston, dies|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/cassandra-hollemon-one-17-black-women-elected-judges-houston-dies-n971586|access-date=2022-02-25|website=NBC News|language=en}}

|Harris County Criminal Court at Law Texas No. 12 (2019)

|Texas

|deceased

|Jerome A. Holmes[http://www.tulsaworld.com/NewsStory.asp?ID=060726_Ne_A9_Holme8547 *"Holmes' nomination confirmed," Tulsa World, July 27, 2006]

|United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (2006– )

|Oklahoma

|active

|Sharon Holmes{{Cite web|title=Minorities, women, underrepresented on state court benches, study finds|url=https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/minorities-women-underrepresented-state-courts-study-finds/|access-date=2022-02-25|website=The Frontier|language=en-US}}

|Tulsa County District Court (2014– )

|Oklahoma

|active

|Charlene Honeywell{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1392956|title=Charlene Honeywell|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida (2009– )

|Florida

|active

|Denise Page Hood{{Cite web|url= https://www.fjc.gov/node/1382366|title=Denise Page Hood|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1994– )

|Michigan

|active

|Benjamin Hooks{{Cite web|url=http://www.people.memphis.edu/~polisci/HOOKBIO.HTM|title=Benjamin L. Hooks|website=Who’s Who among African Americans, 1996–1997|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050909041913/http://www.people.memphis.edu/~polisci/HOOKBIO.HTM|archive-date=September 9, 2005}}

|Shelby County Criminal Court (appt. 1965)

|Tennessee

|deceased

|Jeffery P. Hopkins{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/12917506|title=Hopkins, Jeffery Paul|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=2022-12-14|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (1997– )

|Ohio

|active

|Odell Horton{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-24-me-passings24.3-story.html|title=Odell Horton, 77; First Modern Black Federal Judge in Tennessee (2006-02-24)|website=The Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|date=February 24, 2006}}

|United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee (1980–2006)

|Tennessee

|deceased

|Michele D. Hotten{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/michele-hotten-is-officially-sworn-in-to-serve-on-marylands-highest-court/2015/12/22/9a9fab62-a8b4-11e5-bff5-905b92f5f94b_story.html|title= Michele Hotten is officially sworn in to serve on Maryland's highest court (2015-12-22)|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en-US}}

|Maryland Court of Special Appeals (2010–2015); Maryland Court of Appeals (2015–2024)

|Maryland

|retired

|John A. Houston{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1392036|title=John A. Houston|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of California (2003– )

|California

|active

|Andrew J. Howard

|District of Columbia Municipal Court

|Washington, D.C.

|deceased

|George Howard Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-25-me-passings25.3-story.html|title=George Howard Jr., 82; federal judge presided over Whitewater cases

|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=April 25, 2007|language=en-US|date=April 25, 2007

}}

|Arkansas Supreme Court (1977–1979); Arkansas Court of Appeals (1977–1980); United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas (1980–1990); United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas (1980–2007)

|Arkansas

|deceased

|John A. Howard{{Cite web|url=https://www.morningjournal.com/news/judge-john-howard-dies-at-age/article_a07c45d1-c0c0-5cab-98a5-76cb5d3474cf.html|title=Judge John Howard dies at age 78 (2002-06-13)|website=The Morning Journal|language=en-US}}

|Elyria Municipal Court (1985–1998)

|Ohio

|retired

|Joseph C. Howard Sr.{{Cite web|url=https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/012000/012032/html/12032bio.html|title=Joseph C. Howard, MSA SC 3520-12032|website=msa.maryland.gov|access-date=January 28, 2020}}

|Supreme Bench of Baltimore City (1968–1979); United States District Court for the District of Maryland (1991–2000)

|Maryland

|deceased

|Karen Aileen Howze{{Cite web|url=https://www.dccourts.gov/fcconference/2009_family_court_conference/BIOS/karenHOWZE.html|title=Honorable Karen Aileen Howze|website=District of Columbia Courts=2009-10-23|language=en-US}}

|Superior Court of the District of Columbia (Magistrate Judge: appt. 2002)

|Washington, D.C.

|retired

|Kenneth M. Hoyt{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1382471|title=Kenneth M. Hoyt|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (1988– )

|Texas

|active

|Mabel H. Hubbard{{Cite web|url=https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshall/html/hubbard.html|title=Mabel Houze Hubbard (1936–2006)|website=Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame|language=en-US|access-date=January 27, 2020}}

|District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City (1981–1985); Circuit Court for Baltimore City (1985–1999)

|Maryland

|deceased

|Natalie Hudson{{cite news |last=Scheck |first=Tom |date=August 18, 2015 |title=Dayton names Natalie Hudson to state Supreme Court |url=http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/08/18/natalie-hudson |newspaper=Minnesota Public Radio |access-date=August 18, 2015}}

|Minnesota Court of Appeals (2002–2015); Minnesota Supreme Court (2015– )

|Minnesota

|active

|William Clarence Hueston Sr.{{Cite web|url= https://parkviewdc.com/2011/04/28/important-park-viewians-judge-william-c-hueston-1880-1961/|title=Important Park Viewians: Judge William C. Hueston (1880–1961)|website=Park View, D.C.|language=en-US|access-date=January 23, 2020|year=2020}}

|Gary Magistrate Court (appt. 1924)

|Indiana

|deceased

|Rufus C. Huffman Sr.{{Cite web|url=http://www.unionspringsherald.com/news/article_cf31b12e-8857-11e3-aa87-001a4bcf6878.html|title=Timeline of the life of Rufus C. Huffman, Sr.|work=Union Springs Herald|access-date=January 29, 2014|language=en-US}}

|Bullock County Probate Court (1976–1994)

|Alabama

|deceased

|Norma S. Huggins{{Cite web|url=https://www.courts.wa.gov/programs_orgs/pos_mjc/newsletter/032000/equaljustice.cfm?article=huggins.htm/|title=Judge Norma S. Huggins: King County Superior Court|date=March 2000|website=Washington Courts|language=en-US}}

|King County Superior Court (1983–2000)

|Washington

|retired

|Erica Hughes{{Cite web|date=2019-03-29|title=Harris Co. judge runs her courtroom a little differently|url=https://abc13.com/woman-of-the-week-erica-hughes-judge-harris-county-criminal-court-at-law/5223361/|access-date=2022-02-25|website=KTRK ABC13 Houston|language=en}}

|Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 3 (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|John Hulett{{Cite web|url=https://www.wsfa.com/story/5330367/only-on-12-lowndes-county-buries-civil-rights-hero/|title=Only on 12: Lowndes County Buries Civil Rights Hero|work=WSFA 12 Newsd|access-date=August 26, 2006|language=en-US}}

|Lowndes County Probate Court

|Alabama

|deceased

|LaShonda A. Hunt{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13622031|title=Hunt, LaShonda Annette|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=May 18, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2023– )

|Illinois

|active

|Clay E. Hunter{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DbQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA8|title= Canton, Ohio, Attorney Named Municipal Judge|website=Jet Magazine|date= March 15, 1962|publisher= Johnson Publishing Company|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Canton Municipal Court

|Ohio

|deceased

|Robert B. Hutson{{Cite web|url=https://www.ocregister.com/2006/09/15/county-fights-release-of-details/|title=County fights release of details|website=Orange County Register|date=September 15, 2006|access-date=September 15, 2006}}

|Orange County Superior Court (1982–2010)

|California

|retired

|Herbert J. Hutton{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1382621|title=Hutton, Herbert J.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 8, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1988–2007)

|Pennsylvania

|deceased

|Todd D. Irby{{Cite web|url=https://lawcomm.pepperdine.edu/todd-d-irby-jd-83-appointed-court-commissioner-of-placer-superior-court/|title=Todd Irby (JD '83) appointed Court Commissioner of Placer Superior Court|language=en|access-date=January 16, 2020}}{{Cite web |title=Todd D. Irby (JD '83) Appointed to Placer County Superior Court Judgeship |url=https://law.pepperdine.edu/surf-report/posts/todd-d-irby-jd-83-appointed-to-placer-county-superior-court-judgeship.htm |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=Caruso School of Law - Pepperdine University |language=en}}

|Placer County Superior Court (Commissioner: 2017–2018; Judge 2018– )

|California

|active

|Roderick L. Ireland{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/michele-hotten-is-officially-sworn-in-to-serve-on-marylands-highest-court/2015/12/22/9a9fab62-a8b4-11e5-bff5-905b92f5f94b_story.html|title= Michele Hotten is officially sworn in to serve on Maryland's highest court (2015-12-22)|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en-US}}

|Boston Juvenile Court (1977–1990); Massachusetts Court of Appeals (1990–1997); Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1997–2014)

|Massachusetts

|retired

|Earlean Isaac{{Cite web|url= https://abc3340.com/news/local/greene-county-probate-judge-to-quit-over-ethics-charges|title=Greene County probate judge to quit over ethics charges|website=ABC 3320|access-date=August 9, 2016|language=en-US|date=August 9, 2016}}

|Greene County Probate Court (1989–2016)

|Alabama

|resigned

|Brian Anthony Jackson{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393251|title=Brian Anthony Jackson|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana (2010– )

|Louisiana

|active

|Carol E. Jackson{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/jackson-carol-e.|title=Jackson, Carol E.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 27, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (1992–2017)

|Missouri

|retired

|Harrison S. Jackson{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QMIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA24|title=N.Y. Judge's Two 'Wives' Funeralize Him|date=December 5, 1963|publisher=Jet Magazine|language=en}}

|New York City Court

|New York

|deceased

|Ketanji Brown Jackson{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394151|title=Ketanji Brown Jackson|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Columbia (2013–2021); United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (2021–2022); Supreme Court of the United States (2022– )

|Washington, D.C.

|active

|Maria T. Jackson{{Cite web|title=About Me – Judge Maria T. Jackson – 339th State District Court – Harris County Texas|url=https://judgemariatjackson.com/339/about-me/|access-date=2022-02-25|language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Despart |first=Zach |title=Maria Jackson, longest-serving Harris County felony judge, steps down |url=https://www.ctinsider.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Maria-Jackson-longest-serving-Harris-County-14473923.php |access-date=2024-05-19 |work=CT Insider |language=en}}

|339th State District Court (2009–2019)

|Texas

|resigned to seek for another office

|Perry B. Jackson{{Cite web|url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/j/jackson-perry-b|title=Jackson, Perry B.|website=Encyclopedia of Cleveland History|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US|date=May 9, 2019}}

|Cleveland Municipal Court (1942–1960); Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court (1960–1973)

|Ohio

|decreased

|Raymond Alvin Jackson{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1382726|title=Raymond Alvin Jackson|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (1993– )

|Virginia

|active

|Candace Jackson-Akiwumi{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/10300101|title=Candace Rae Jackson-Akiwumi|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=June 24, 2021|language=en-US}}

|United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (2021– )

|Illinois

|active

|George E. James{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesonline.com/98c8a532-9f0d-11e6-8b82-ab9c988b5be8.html|title=Beaver County's first black judge to be honored at NAACP banquet (2016-10-31)

|website=The Times|language=en-US}}

|Beaver County Court (1998–2007)

|Pennsylvania

|retired

|Andrew L. Jefferson Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/honorable-andrew-l-jefferson-jr/|title=The Honorable Andrew L. Jefferson, Jr.|website=The History Makers|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Harris County Family District Court (1970–1973); Texas 208th District Court (1973–1975)

|Texas

|deceased

|Bernard Jefferson{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-mar-21-me-jefferson21-story.html|title=Bernard S. Jefferson, 91; Respected Appellate Judge and Legal Scholar|date=March 21, 2002|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|access-date=February 17, 2020}}

|California Second District Court of Appeal (1975–1980)

|California

|deceased

|Deadra L. Jefferson{{Cite web|title=SC Judicial Branch|url=https://www.sccourts.org/circuitCourt/displaycirjudge.cfm?judgeid=2128|access-date=2022-02-26|website=www.sccourts.org}}

|South Carolina Circuit Court (2001– )

|South Carolina

|active

|Edwin L. Jefferson{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-22-me-954-story.html|title=Pioneer Black Judge Edwin Jefferson Dies|date=August 22, 1989|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|Los Angeles Municipal Court (1941–1949); Los Angeles Superior Court (1949–1961); California Second Appellate District (1961–1975)

|California

|deceased

|Wallace B. Jefferson{{Cite web|url=https://www.adjtlaw.com/wjefferson|title=Wallace B. Jefferson|website=Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP ADJ|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Supreme Court of Texas (2001–2013)

|Texas

|resigned

|Lindsay C. Jenkins{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13258771|title=Jenkins, Lindsay Clayton|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=February 14, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2023– )

|Illinois

|active

|Martin Jenkins{{Cite web|url=http://www.metnews.com/articles/2008/jenk040708.htm|title=Commission Confirms Judge Martin Jenkins as Court of Appeal Justice|website=www.metnews.com|access-date=January 16, 2020}}{{Cite web|date=October 5, 2020|title=Governor Newsom Selects Justice Martin Jenkins (Ret.) for California Supreme Court|url=https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/10/05/governor-newsom-selects-justice-martin-jenkins-ret-for-california-supreme-court/|access-date=November 3, 2020|website=California Governor|language=en}}

|Alameda County Municipal Court (1989–1992); Alameda County Superior Court (1992–1997); United States District Court—Northern (1997–2008); California First Appellate District (2008–2019); Supreme Court of California (appt. 2020)

|California

|active

|Angela Jewell{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/honorable-angela-jewell|title=The Honorable Angela Jewell|website=The HistoryMakers|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

| New Mexico 2nd Judicial District Court (1996–2010)

|New Mexico

|retired

|Tommy Jewell{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/honorable-tommy-jewell|title=The Honorable Tommy Jewell|website=The HistoryMakers|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court (1983–1991); New Mexico 2nd Judicial District Court (1991–2005)

|New Mexico

|retired

|Z. Mae Jimison{{Cite web|url=https://www.in.gov/icw/files/2015-03-20_Z_Mae_Jimison.pdf|title=Z. Mae Jimison (1943–2008)|website=Indiana Commission for Women (March 20, 2015)|language=en-US}}

|Marion County Superior Court (1996–2002)

|Indiana

|deceased

|Bernette Joshua Johnson{{Cite web|url=http://www.lasc.org/justices/johnson.asp|title=Profile: Bernette Joshua Johnson|website=Supreme Court of Louisiana|access-date=January 24, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Louisiana Supreme Court (1994–2020)

|Louisiana

|retired

|C. Anthony Johnson{{Cite web |title=Memphis legal community mourns deaths of 2 judges on same day |url=https://www.actionnews5.com/story/9610788/memphis-legal-community-mourns-deaths-of-2-judges-on-same-day |access-date=2022-03-03 |website=Action News 5 |date=January 3, 2009 |language=en}}

|General Sessions Criminal Court

|Tennessee

|deceased

|Clifton Johnson (jurist){{Cite web|url= https://www.meckbar.org/index.cfm?pg=clifton-johnson-chambers-award-winner|title=Judge Clifton Johnson|website=Mecklenburg County Bar|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|North Carolina Court of Appeals (1982–1996)

|North Carolina

|deceased

|Golden E. Johnson{{Cite web|url=http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/wic/johnson.html|title=Judge Golden Elizabeth Johnson|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 26, 2020|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116125826/http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/wic/johnson.html|archive-date=January 16, 2015}}

|Newark Municipal Court (appt. 1974); Montclair Municipal Court

|New Jersey

|deceased

|Joseph D. Johnson{{Cite web|url=https://www.cjonline.com/news/20180405/shawnee-county-is-seeking-new-district-court-judge-to-replace-retiring-judge-joseph-johnson|title=Shawnee County is seeking a new district court judge to replace retiring Judge Joseph Johnson (2018-04-05)|website=CJOnline|language=en-US}}

|Kansas Third Judicial District (2005–2018)

|Kansas

|deceased

|Norma Holloway Johnson{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1382846|title=Johnson, Norma Holloway|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 10, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1980–2003)

|Washington, D.C.

|retired

|Shanice Johnson{{Cite web|date=2021-01-03|title=Six 6th Circuit judges replace bench retirees|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/jan/03/six-6th-circuit-judges-replace-bench-retirees/|access-date=2022-02-26|website=Arkansas Online|language=en}}

|Sixth Circuit Court (2021– )

|Arkansas

|active

|Sterling Johnson Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1382856|title=Sterling Johnson Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1991–2022)

|New York

|deceased

|Tiffany R. Johnson{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761906|title=Johnson, Tiffany Rene |website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=December 10, 2024|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (2025– )

|Georgia

|designate

|Alesia Jones{{Cite web|url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2008/07/21/three-judges-appointed-in-east-bay/|title=Three judges appointed in East Bay|date=July 21, 2008|website=East Bay Times|language=en-US|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|Solano County Superior Court (2008– )

|California

|active

|Bernard M. Jones{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/7544951|title=Jones, Bernard M.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=August 26, 2021|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma (2015– )

|Oklahoma

|active

|C. Darnell Jones II{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1392796|title=C. Darnell Jones II|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|First Judicial District of Pennsylvania (1987–2008); United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2008– )

|Pennsylvania

|active

|Charles W. Jones{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W7mRAAAAMAAJ|title=Black Lawyers, Law Practice, and Bar Associations—1844 to 1970: A Michigan History|website=Wolverine Bar Association|access-date=January 27, 2020|language=en-US|last1=Littlejohn|first1=Edward J.|year=1987}}

|Detroit Recorder’s Court (appt. 1950)

|Michigan

|deceased

|DaSean Jones{{Cite web|title=Harris County District Courts|url=https://www.justex.net/Courts/Criminal/CriminalCourt.aspx?crt=32|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.justex.net}}

|Harris County District Court (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|Gaynelle Griffin Jones{{Cite web|url=https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Houston-lawyer-Gaynelle-Griffin-Jones-64-dies-4324782.php|title=Houston lawyer Gaynelle Griffin Jones, 64, dies (2013-03-03)|website=Chron|language=en-US|date=March 4, 2013}}

|First Court of the Texas Courts of Appeals (1992–1993)

|Texas

|deceased

|Jennifer L. Jones{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/honorable-jennifer-jones|title=The Honorable Jennifer Jones|website=The HistoryMakers|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Sedgwick County District Court (1992–2001); Wichita Municipal Court (2001– )

|Kansas

|active

|Joscelyn Jones{{Cite web|title=CCCBA Member Joscelyn Jones Appointed as an Alameda County Superior Court Judge|url=https://cccba.org/article/cccba-member-joscelyn-jones-appointed-as-an-alameda-county-superior-court-judge/|access-date=August 17, 2021|website=Contra Costa County Bar Association|language=en-US}}

|Alameda County Superior Court (2020– )

|California

|active

|Napoleon A. Jones Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1382926|title=Napolean A. Jones Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=February 6, 2020|language=en-US}}

|San Diego Municipal Court (1977–1982); San Diego County Superior Court (1982–1994); United States District Court for the Southern District of California (1994–2009)

|California

|deceased

|Nathaniel R. Jones{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1382931|title=Jones, Nathaniel Raphael

|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 1, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1979–2002)

|Ohio

|retired

|Okla Jones II{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/jones-okla-ii|title=Jones II, Okla|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 24, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (1994–1996)

|Louisiana

|deceased

|Richard A. Jones{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1392636|title=Jones, Richard A.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=February 16, 2022|language=en-US}}

|King County Superior Court (1994–2007); United States District Court for the Western District of Washington (2007– )

|Washington

|active

|Sidney A. Jones{{Cite web|url=https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/bmrc/view.php?eadid=BMRC.CHM.JONES|title=Judge Sidney A. Jones Papers|website=www.lib.uchicago.edu|access-date=February 17, 2020}}

|Cook County Circuit Court (1960–1980)

|Illinois

|deceased

|Steve C. Jones{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393626|title=Steve C. Jones|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (2011– )

|Georgia

|active

|Tierra Jones{{Cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/nevada/articles/2017-06-02/event-to-mark-appointment-of-1st-black-female-nevada-judge|title=Event to Mark Appointment of 1st Black Female Nevada Judge (2017-06-02)|website=U.S. News & World Report|language=en-US}}

|Clark County District Court (2017– )

|Nevada

|active

|Tonya Jones

|Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 15 (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|Tanya Jones Bosier{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Stacy M. |date=June 6, 2024 |title=Senate Moves to Address D.C. Superior Court Backlog Crisis by Confirming Two New Judges |url=http://www.washingtoninformer.com/district-columbia-superior-court-vacancies/ |access-date=July 10, 2024 |website=The Washington Informer |language=en-US}}

|Superior Court of the District of Columbia (2017– )

|Washington, D.C.

|active

|Claudia Jordan{{Cite web|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2014/09/28/mayor-honors-former-judge-claudia-jordan/|title=Mayor honors former Judge Claudia Jordan (2014-09-28)|website=Denver Post|language=en-US|date=September 28, 2014}}

|Denver County Court (1994–2014)

|Colorado

|retired

|Robert E. Jourdan

|Chelan County Superior Court (2021– )

|Washington

|active

|J. Curtis Joyner{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/joyner-j.-curtis|title=Joyner, J. Curtis|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Chester County Court of Common Pleas for the 15th Judicial District of Pennsylvania (1987–1992); United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1992–2021)

|Pennsylvania

|retired

|Maria Araújo Kahn{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13373966|title=Kahn, Maria Araujo|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=October 6, 2023|language=en-US}}

|Connecticut Superior Court (2006–2017); Connecticut Appellate Court (2017); Supreme Court of Connecticut (2017–2023); United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2023– )

|Connecticut

|active

|Abdul Kallon{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1392961|title=Abdul Kallon|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama (2010–2022)

|Alabama

|resigned

|Michelle Kazadi

|Los Angeles County Superior Court (2021– )

|California

|active

|Amalya Lyle Kearse{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1383111|title=Amalya Lyle Kearse|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 27, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1979– )

|New York

|active

|Damon Keith{{Cite web|url= https://www.fjc.gov/node/1383151|title=Damon Jerome Keith|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1967–1977); United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1977–2019)

|Michigan

|deceased

|Angel Kelley{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/10719691|title=Kelley, Angel|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=October 29, 2021|language=en-US}}

|Brockton District Court (2009–2013); Massachusetts Superior Court (2013–2021); United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (2021– )

|Massachusetts

|active

|Cain James Kennedy{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=steLXpuOONEC&pg=PT872

|title=Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events|access-date=January 17, 2019|language=en-US|isbn=9781578594252|last1=Carney Smith|first1=Jessie |date=December 2012|publisher=Visible Ink Press }}

|Mobile County Circuit Court (1979–1998)

|Alabama

|deceased

|Henry H. Kennedy Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1390521|title=Henry H. Kennedy Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1997– )

|Washington, D.C.

|inactive

|Embry Kidd{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761891|title=Kidd, Embry Jerode|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=2024-11-19|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida (2019–2024); United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (2024– )

|Florida

|active

|Peter Killough{{cite news |last1=Kurtz |first1=Josh |title=Moore nominates first state Supreme Court justice |url=https://marylandmatters.org/2024/07/25/moore-nominates-first-state-supreme-court-justice/ |access-date=July 31, 2024 |work=Maryland Matters |date=July 26, 2024}}

|Supreme Court of Maryland (2024– )

|Maryland

|active

|James C. Kimbrough{{Cite web|url=https://kbalaw.org/about-us/|title=About Us|website=James C. Kimbrough Bar Association|language=en-US|access-date=January 23, 2020}}

|Lake County Superior Court (1974–1987)

|Indiana

|deceased

|Klinette H. Kindred{{Cite web|url=https://www.vaeb.uscourts.gov/wordpress/?wpfb_dl=686|title=Media advisory-Klinette H. Kindred appointed bankruptcy judge|website=U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia|access-date=January 24, 2017|language=en-US}}

|United States Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of Virginia (2017– )

|Virginia

|active

|Kimberly Kiner{{Cite web|url=https://www.colemanhicks.com/notices/Kimberly-Kiner|title=Kimberly Denise (Kiner) Kiner March 25, 1980 ~ September 13, 2017|website=Coleman & Hicks Funeral Home|language=en-US}}

|LaPorte Superior Court (Judge Pro Tem: appt. 2013)

|Indiana

|deceased

|Alex Kinlaw Jr.{{Cite web|title=SC Judicial Branch|url=https://www.sccourts.org/circuitCourt/displaycirjudge.cfm?judgeid=2763|access-date=2022-02-26|website=www.sccourts.org}}

|South Carolina Circuit Court (2018– )

|South Carolina

|active

|David M. Krashna{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/david-krashna/|title=David Krashna|website=Berkeley Law|language=en-US|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Alameda County Municipal Court (Commissioner: 1992–1998); Alameda County Superior Court (Commissioner: 1998–2001; Judge: 2001–2015)

|California

|retired

|Leondra Kruger{{cite news|title=Second Black woman confirmed to state supreme court|url=http://ourweekly.com/news/2015/jan/22/second-black-woman-confirmed-state-supreme-court/|access-date=September 13, 2017|work=Our Weekly (Los Angeles, CA)|date=January 22, 2015}}

|California Supreme Court (2015– )

|California

|active

|William Francis Kuntz II{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393776|title=William Francis Kuntz|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2011– )

|New York

|active

|Gary L. Lancaster{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1383601|title=Lancaster, Gary L.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1987–2013)

|Pennsylvania

|deceased

|Adam B. Landy{{Cite tweet |number=1489661802015244297 |user=UofSCLaw |title=Adam B. Landy '09 got his start in tax law with #UofSCLaw's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. In December, Landy was selected to serve as a Special Trial Judge on the U.S. Tax Court in D.C. Congratulations, Judge Landy! #OhThePlacesYoullGo |date=February 4, 2022}}

|United States Tax Court (2021– )

|Washington, D.C.

|active

|Monique Langhorne{{Cite web|url=https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/meet-napa-county-s-new-judges-monique-langhorne-and-scott/article_0c6d845c-4d51-5342-b350-592b716838de.html|title=Meet Napa County's new judges: Monique Langhorne and Scott Young|last=Teague|first=Courtney|website=Napa Valley Register|language=en|access-date=January 15, 2020}}{{Cite web |title=Monique Langhorne Wilson - 1DCA |url=https://www.courts.ca.gov/76465.htm |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=www.courts.ca.gov}}

|Napa County Superior Court (2019–2023) Courts of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division One (2023– )

|California

|active

|Rick Lawrence{{Cite web|url=https://archive.bangordailynews.com/2000/03/30/maine-senate-confirms-states-first-black-judge/|title=Maine Senate confirms state's first black judge|website=Archive|language=en-US|access-date=January 24, 2020}}

|Lewiston District Court (2000–2022) Supreme Judicial Court (2022– )

|Maine

|active

|Alison Renee Lee{{Cite web|date=2019-02-06|title=Black lawmakers protest judicial elections in South Carolina|url=https://apnews.com/article/a503519c018e456eb6635eafecb11b7b|access-date=2022-02-26|website=AP NEWS|language=en}}

|South Carolina Fifth Judicial Circuit (1999–2023)

|South Carolina

|retired

|Amarra A. Lee{{Cite web|url=https://blog.sfbar.org/2018/11/09/amarra-lee-appointed-to-san-mateo-county-superior-court/|title=Amarra Lee Appointed to San Mateo County Superior Court|date=November 9, 2018|website=Legal by the Bay|language=en-US|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|San Mateo Superior Court (2018– )

|California

|active

|Eunice C. Lee{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/10534666|title=Eunice C. Lee|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=August 25, 2021|language=en-US}}

|United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2021– )

|New York

|active

|Gerald Bruce Lee{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1390881|title=Gerald Bruce Lee|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (1998–2017)

|Virginia

|retired

|Helen Shores Lee{{Cite web|url= https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2018/07/retired_judge_helen_shores_lee.html|title=Retired Judge Helen Shores Lee, daughter of MLK's attorney, dies

|website=Birmingham Real-Time News|access-date=July 2, 2018|language=en-US|date=July 2, 2018

}}

|Jefferson County Circuit Court (2003–2017)

|Alabama

|deceased

|Ida Leggett{{Cite web|url=https://lmtribune.com/northwest/idaho-s-judiciary-cd-a-woman-is-new-judge-ida/article_227c6be7-55dc-51d5-b1aa-bff543ec7012.html|title=Idaho's Judiciary CD'A Woman Is New Judge – Ida Leggett Praised for Intellect, Experience As Single, Working Mother|website=The Lewiston Tribune|access-date=August 28, 2019|language=en-US}}

|Idaho Second District Court (1992–1998)

|Idaho

|resigned

|George N. Leighton

|Circuit Court of Cook County (1964–1969); First District Appellate Court of Illinois (1969–1976); United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1976–1987)

|Illinois

|deceased

|Ivan L. R. Lemelle{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/lemelle-ivan-l.-r.|title=Lemelle, Ivan L.R.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 24, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (1984– )

|Louisiana

|active

|John T. Letts{{Cite web|url=https://www.michbar.org/file/barjournal/article/documents/pdf4article2622.pdf|title=Michigan Black Lawyers' "Firsts"|date=May 2015|website=Michigan Bar Journal}}

|Grand Rapids Municipal Court (elect. 1959); Kent County District Court (elect. 1967)

|Michigan

|deceased

|Ola M. Lewis{{Cite web|url=https://www.fayobserver.com/news/20191230/judge-ola-lewis-who-grew-up-in-spring-lake-dies|title=Judge Ola Lewis, who grew up in Spring Lake, dies|last=Riley|first=Rachael|website=The Fayetteville Observer|language=en|access-date=January 24, 2020}}

|North Carolina 13th Judicial District (appt. 1993)

|North Carolina

|deceased

|Timothy K. Lewis{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1383891|title=Lewis, Timothy K.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 1, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1991–1992); United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1992–1999)

|Pennsylvania

|resigned

|Reginald C. Lindsay{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1383931|title=Lindsay, Reginald C.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 10, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1993–2009)

|Massachusetts

|deceased

|Sam A. Lindsay{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1390616|title=Lindsay, Sam A.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (1998– )

|Texas

|active

|Joe O. Littlejohn{{Cite web |title=The Honorable Judge Rod Shelton |url=https://www.sandiegonaacp.org/our-team/the-honorable-judge-rod-shelton/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200207004854/https://www.sandiegonaacp.org/our-team/the-honorable-judge-rod-shelton/ |archive-date=February 7, 2020 |access-date=February 6, 2020 |website=NAACP |language=en-US}}

| San Diego County Superior Court (1995–2006)

|California

|retired

|Melony Lockwood{{Cite web|url=http://www.courts.alaska.gov/judges/mj.htm#4|title=Magistrate Judges|website=Alaska Court System|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Alaska Court System Annual Report FY 2021 |url=https://courts.alaska.gov/admin/docs/fy21-narratives.pdf |access-date=May 22, 2024 |website=Alaska Court System}}

|Alaska Fourth Judicial District (2017–2021)

|Alaska

|resigned

|Steven Logan{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394501|title=Steven Logan|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Arizona (2014– )

|Arizona

|active

|Raymond Lohier{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393651|title=Raymond Lohier|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2010– )

|New York

|active

|James L. Long{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.com/almID/900005485186/|title=Judicial Profile: James Long|last=Miller|first=Cheryl|date=July 3, 2007|website=Law.com|language=en|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Sacramento County Superior Court (app. 1982)

|California

|retired

|Mary Johnson Lowe{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/03/nyregion/mary-j-lowe-74-us-judge-noted-for-her-rulings-on-bias.html|title=Mary J. Lowe, 74, U.S. Judge Noted for Her Rulings on Bias|last=Pace|first=Eric|date=March 3, 1999|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 28, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

|New York City Criminal Court (1971–1973); New York County Supreme Court (1973–1974); Bronx County Supreme Court (1975–1976); Supreme Court of New York (1977–1978); United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1978–1991)

|New York

|deceased

|Alice A. Lytle{{Cite web|url=https://www.sacbar.org/project/sacramento-mourns-the-loss-of-judge-alice-a-lytle-ret/|title=Sacramento Mourns the Loss of Judge Alice A. Lytle (Ret.)|date=February 28, 2019|website=Sacramento County Bar Association|language=en-US|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|Sacramento Municipal Court (1983–1998); Sacramento County Superior Court (1998–2002)

|California

|deceased

|Matthew J. Maddox{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761321|title=Maddox, Matthew James|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=September 17, 2024|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Maryland (2022– )

|Maryland

|active

|Conrad Mallett Jr.{{Cite web|url=http://www.micourthistory.org/justices/conrad-mallett-jr/|title=Conrad Mallett Jr.|website=Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society|access-date=January 27, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Michigan Supreme Court (1990–1998)

|Michigan

|retired

|William A. Mallory{{Cite web|url=https://hamiltoncountycourts.org/index.php/municipal-judges/municipal-court-judge-william-mallory/|title=Honorable William Mallory|website=Hamilton County Courts|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Hamilton County Municipal Court (1993–2006; 2011– ); Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas (2006–2009) Hamilton County First District Court of Appeals (2009–2011)

|Ohio

|active

|Mercer M. Mance{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5963113/mance_mercer_obituary/|title=Mercer Mance, former judge and 1st black elected to Indiana court (1990-10-20)|website=The Indianapolis Star|date=October 20, 1990 |page=41 |language=en-US}}

|Marion County Superior Court (1958–1978)

|Indiana

|deceased

|Robert J. Mangum{{Cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/hudson/2014/10/judge_with_bayonne_connection_who_founded_black_organizations_in_nyc_dies.html|title=New York judge from Bayonne, 93, dies; founded black organizations|first=Jonathan |last=Lin |publisher=The Jersey Journal|date=October 11, 2014|website=nj|language=en|access-date=January 24, 2020}}

|New York State Court of Claims (appt. 1971)

|New York

|deceased

|Blanche M. Manning{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1384276|title=Blanche M. Manning|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1994–2020)

|Illinois

|deceased

|L. Casey Manning{{Cite web|title=SC Judicial Branch|url=https://www.sccourts.org/circuitCourt/displaycirjudge.cfm?judgeid=2061|access-date=2022-02-26|website=www.sccourts.org}}

|South Carolina Circuit Court (1994– )

|South Carolina

|active

|Jeralynn Manor{{Cite web|title=Who Will Be Judge of Houston's 80th District Court: Candidates Jeralynn Manor and Sharon Hemphill|url=https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2020/09/24/who-will-be-judge-of-houstons-80th-district-court-candidates-jeralynn-manor-and-sharon-hemphill/|access-date=2022-02-24|website=Texas Lawyer|language=en}}

|Harris County District Court (2021– )

|Texas

|active

|Calvin Mapp{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/almID/1202580274402/?slreturn=20200024131934|title=Funeral scheduled for Calvin Mapp, Miami-Dade's first black county court judge (2012-12-05)|website=Law.com|language=en-US}}

|Miami-Dade County Court (1973–1994)

|Florida

|deceased

|Algenon L. Marbley{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1390536|title=Algernon L. Marbley|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (1997– )

|Ohio

|active

|Consuelo Bland Marshall{{Cite web|url= https://www.fjc.gov/node/1384346|title=Consuelo Bland Marshall|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Central District of California (1980– )

|California

|inactive

|Thurgood Marshall{{Cite web |url=http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/hill/marshall.htm |title=George Mason University biography of Thurgood Marshall |access-date=December 25, 2005 |archive-date=August 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814183739/http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/hill/marshall.htm |url-status=dead }}

|United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1961–1965); Supreme Court of the United States (1967–1991)

|Washington, D.C.

|deceased

|Janice R. Martin{{Cite web|url=http://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/1127|title=Martin, Janice R. Notable Kentucky African Americans Database|website=nkaa.uky.edu|access-date=January 25, 2020}}

|Kentucky District Court (1993–2009)

|Kentucky

|retired

|Joshua W. Martin III{{Cite web|url=http://www.delawaregrapevine.com/jan-mar03stories/2-03%20calvinscott.htm|title=The Honorable Vivian L. Medinilla, Judge|website=Delaware Courts|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Judge Joshua W. Martin III |url=https://scafricanamerican.com/honorees/judge-joshua-w-martin-iii/ |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=South Carolina African American History Calendar |language=en-US}}

|Superior Court of Delaware (1982–1989)

|Delaware

|resigned

|Aaron B. Mason{{Cite web |title=Judge Aaron B. Mason |url=http://trellis.law/judge/aaron.b.mason |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Trellis |language=en}}

|Clayton County Superior Court (2016– )

|Georgia

|active

|Rhonda Mason{{Cite web|url=https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article123986469.html|title=Lifetime ambition realized for Johnson County's first African-American judge (2016-12-31)|website=The Kansas City Star|language=en-US}}

|Johnson County Court (2016– )

|Kansas

|active

|Andre Mathis{{Cite web |last=Raymond |first=Nate |date=2022-09-09 |title=U.S. Senate confirms Biden appellate judge pick opposed by home state senators |url=https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-senate-confirms-biden-appellate-judge-pick-opposed-by-home-state-senators-2022-09-08/ |access-date=2022-09-09 |website=Reuters |language=en}}

|United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (2022– )

|Tennessee

|active

|Albert Matthews{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-06-02-me-8423-story.html|title=Al Matthews, Celebrated Defense Lawyer, Dies|date=June 2, 1986|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|access-date=January 17, 2020}}

|Los Angeles Superior Court (Assigned Judge: appt. 1993)

|California

|deceased

|James Campbell Matthews{{cite journal|date=November 14, 1895|title=Various Election Topics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yhQ7AQAAMAAJ&q=%22james+c.+matthews%22+cleveland+recorder&pg=PA617|journal=Public Opinion|location=New York, NY|publisher=Public Opinion Company|page=617}}

|Albany, New York Recorder's Court (1896–1899)

|New York

|deceased

|Stephen L. Maxwell{{Cite web|url=http://ramseylawlibrary.org/?p=1749|title=Judge Stephen L. Maxwell (1921 -2009)|website=ramseylawlibrary.org|access-date=January 25, 2020}}

|Minnesota 2nd Judicial District Court (1967–1987)

|Minnesota

|deceased

|Mabel Mayfield{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldpalladium.com/localnews/family-court-lawyer-will-serve-as-first-black-judge-in/article_b5ae8ad1-43f2-5e6d-8f68-d940e9409c01.html|title=Family Court lawyer will serve as first black judge in Berrien County (2000-01-13)|language=en-US}}

|Berrien County Courts (2000– )

|Michigan

|active

|William E. McAnulty Jr.{{Cite web|url=http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/158316.html|title=Former Supreme Court Justice McAnulty dies|date=August 27, 2007|access-date=January 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827231431/http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/158316.html|archive-date=August 27, 2007}}

|Jefferson County District Court (1977–1980; 1983–1990; 1993–1998); Kentucky Court of Appeals (1998–2006); Supreme Court of Kentucky (2006–2007)

|Kentucky

|deceased

|Mark A. McCannon{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Governor-names-new-superior-court-judges-4662806.php|title=Governor names new superior court judges|date=July 12, 2013|website=SFChronicle.com|language=en-US|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Alameda County Superior Court (2013– )

|California

|active

|Jesse McClure{{Cite news |last1=Morris |first1=Angela |title=Meet the New Judge of Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals |date=December 22, 2020 |url=https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2020/12/22/meet-the-new-judge-of-texas-court-of-criminal-appeals/ |language=en |access-date=December 29, 2020 |website=law.com}}

|339th District Court (2019–2020); Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (2021– )

|Texas

|active

|LaRonda J. McCoy{{Cite web|title=Brown Names 18 to Superior Courts, Seven in Los Angeles|url=http://www.metnews.com/articles/2016/judge062916.htm|access-date=2022-02-20|website=www.metnews.com}}

|Los Angeles County Superior Court (2017– )

|California

|active

|Kari McCrea{{Cite web|url=https://public.courts.alaska.gov/web/judges/docs/km.pdf|title=Kari McCrea|website=Alaska Court System|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Alaska Third Judicial District (2017– )

|Alaska

|active

|Wade H McCree Jr.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24880167/detroit_free_press/|title=McCree blazed legal trail (1990-10-17)|website=Detroit Free Press|date=October 17, 1990 |page=17 |language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1961–1966) United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1966-1977)

|Michigan

|deceased

|Wade Harper McCree {{Cite web |date=June 25, 2004 |title=Governor Granholm Appoints 36th District Judge Wade McCree to 3rd Circuit Court |url=https://www.michigan.gov/formergovernors/recent/granholm/press-releases/2004/06/25/granholm-appoints-36th-district-judge-wade-mccree-to-3rd-circuit-court |access-date=May 22, 2024 |website=Former Governors of Michigan}}{{Cite web |date=June 10, 2020 |title=Suspended Former Judge Reinstated |url=https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legal_profession/2020/06/the-michigan-attorney-discipline-board-has-reinstated-an-attorney-who-was-suspended-wade-h-mccree-p-37626-detroit-michig.html |access-date=May 22, 2024 |website=Law Professor Blogs Network}}

|Wayne County Circuit Court (2004–2013; 2020– ) suspended and reinstated

|Michigan

|active

|Joe Billy McDade{{Cite web|url=https://www.peoriamagazines.com/tpw/2002/mar/interview-judge-mary-mcdade|title=An Interview with Judge Mary McDade|website=PeoriaMagazines.com|language=en|access-date=January 25, 2020}}

|Tenth Judicial Circuit, State of Illinois (1982–1991); United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois (1991– )

|Illinois

|active

|Gabrielle Kirk McDonald{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/honorable-gabrielle-kirk-mcdonald|title=The Honorable Gabrielle Kirk McDonald|website=The HistoryMakers|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (1979–1988)

|Texas

|resigned

|Odell McGhee, II{{Cite web|url=https://www.iowacourts.gov/iowa-courts/district-court/judicial-district-5/judges-and-magistrates/odell-mcghee-ii/|title=Odell McGhee, II|website=Iowa Judicial Branch|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Iowa District Court (2002– )

|Iowa

|active

|Theodore McKee{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1384731|title=Theodore McKee|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas (1984–1994); United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1994– )

|Pennsylvania

|active

|Kevin McKeever{{Cite web|url=https://www.iowacourts.gov/iowa-courts/district-court/judicial-district-6/judges-and-magistrates/kevin-mckeever/|title=Kevin McKeever|website=Iowa Judicial Branch|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Iowa District Court (2015– )

|Iowa

|active

|Elwood S. McKenney{{Cite web|url=https://masslawyersweekly.com/2003/11/24/elwood-s-mckenney/|title=Elwood S. McKenney|date=November 24, 2003|website=Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly|language=en-US|access-date=February 17, 2020}}

|Roxbury District Court (appt. 1960)

|Massachusetts

|deceased

|Patricia McKinley{{Cite web|url=http://cclawyerarchive.cccba.org/2018/08/the-law-in-these-parts/|title=The Law in these Parts : Contra Costa Lawyer Online|first=John M. |last=O'Brien|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|Bay District Municipal Court District (1982–1986)

|California

|deceased

|Theodore McMillian{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1384851|title=McMillian, Theodore|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 24, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1978–2006)

|Missouri

|deceased

|Brandy R. McMillion{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761351|title=McMillion, Brandy Renée|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=2023-11-09|language=en-US}}

|{{nowrap|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (2023– )}}

|Michigan

|active

|Tyrone Medley{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/10/us/utah-s-first-black-judge.html|title=Utah's First Black Judge|date=June 10, 1984|website=New York Times|language=en-US}}

|Utah Fifth Circuit Court (1984–1992); Utah Third Circuit Court (1992–2012)

|Utah

|retired

|Cordell D. Meeks Sr.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/10/obituaries/cordell-d-meeks-sr-kansas-judge-73.html|title=Cordell D. Meeks Sr., Kansas Judge, 73; Obituary (1987-12-10)|website=The New York Times|date=December 10, 1987 |language=en-US}}

|Wyandotte County District Court (1972–1980)

|Kansas

|deceased

|Alfonza Menefee{{Cite web|url=http://www.thetuskegeenews.com/news/menefee-assumes-role-as-first-black-male-aapj-president/article_ef1650d8-8831-53a0-9961-99e47f4c10cd.html|title=Menefee assumes role as first black male AAPJ president|work=The Tuskegee News|access-date=February 4, 2010|language=en-US}}

|Macon County Probate Court (1988–2019){{Cite web |title=The Tuskegee News April 18 Page 7 |url=http://tkg.stparchive.com/Archive/TKG/TKG04182019p07.php |access-date=June 9, 2021 |website=tkg.stparchive.com}}

|Alabama

|retired

|Orelia Merchant{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13620521|title=Merchant, Orelia Eleta

|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=May 18, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2023– )

|New York

|active

|Robin M. Meriweather{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761791|title=U.S. Court of Federal Claims: Meriweather, Robin Michelle|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=July 15, 2024|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Columbia (2017–2024); United States Court of Federal Claims (2024– )

|Washington, D.C.

|active

|Natasha C. Merle{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13720111|title=Merle, Natasha Clarice|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=June 21, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2023– )

|New York

|active

|Stephan P. Mickle{{Cite web|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/06/17/4183778/miamis-gayles-confirmed-as-first.html|title=Miami's Gayles confirmed as first openly gay black male judge on federal bench (2014-06-17)|website=Miami Herald|language=en-US}}

|Alachua County Court (1979–1984); Florida Eighth Judicial Circuit (1984–1992); Florida First District Court of Appeal (1993–1998); United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida (1998–2021)

|Florida

|deceased

|Vicki Miles-LaGrange{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1385121|title=Vicki Miles-LaGrange|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma (1994– )

|Oklahoma

|inactive

|Brian Stacy Miller{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1392686|title=Brian Stacy Miller|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas (2008– )

|Arkansas

|active

|Sheila Miller{{Cite web|url=https://www.macombdaily.com/news/local/macomb-county-clerk-fred-miller-names-former-judge-longtime-clerk/article_4308c8cc-1501-11e9-b2b2-c70bd7502018.html|title=Macomb County Clerk Fred Miller names former judge, longtime clerk employee as chief deputies (2019-01-10)|language=en-US}}

|41B District Court (2006–2010)

|Michigan

|retired

|Herbert E. Millin{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/apa1906network/docs/195404003/16|title=Mercy-Douglass Hospital |date=October 1954|website=The Sphinx|language=en-US}}

|Philadelphia Municipal Court (appt. 1947)

|Pennsylvania

|deceased

|Toni Y. Mims-Cochran{{Cite web|url=https://www.acbanet.org/2017/01/25/judicial-spotlight-toni-mims-cochran/|title=Bench Officer Spotlight – Commissioner Toni Mims-Cochran » Alameda County Bar Association|last=Lescroart |first=Valerie Brown|date=January 25, 2017|website=Alameda County Bar Association|language=en-US|access-date=January 16, 2020}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2022-12-28 |title=Five new Superior Court judges appointed in the Bay Area |url=http://www.livermorevine.com/local-news/2022/12/28/five-new-superior-court-judges-appointed-in-the-bay-area/ |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Livermore Vine |language=en-US}}

|Alameda County Superior Court (Commissioner: 2016–2022; Judge 2022)

|California

|active

|Cameron Mitchell{{Cite web|url=https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article32136435.html|title=Benton-County judge, Wenatchee lawyer pegged for Shea replacement|website=Tri-City Herald|access-date=August 3, 2013|language=en-US}}

|Benton-Franklin Superior Court (2004– )

|Washington

|deceased

|Irvin C. Mollison{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393386|title=Mollison, Irvin Charles|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 10, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States Customs Court (1945–1962)

|New York

|deceased

|Tamika Montgomery–Reeves{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/12941021|title=Montgomery-Reeves, Tamika Renee|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=2022-12-14|language=en-US}}

|Delaware Court of Chancery (2015–2019); Supreme Court of Delaware (2019–2023); United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2023– )

|Delaware

|active

|Vershenia Ballance Moody{{Cite news|url=https://www.roanoke-chowannewsherald.com/2013/01/07/historic-oath/|title=Historic Oath – The Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald|date=January 7, 2013|work=The Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald|access-date=January 25, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Illinois 6th Judicial District (2012– )

|Illinois

|active

|Herman E. Moore{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=27YDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6|title=Herman E. Moore, 88, Retired Judge, Succumbs|date=December 18, 1980|website=Jet Magazine|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company}}

|United States District Court of the Virgin Islands (1939–1957)

|United States Virgin Islands

|deceased

|Lester V. Moore{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970915/09150078.htm|title=Trailblazing Jurist Retires, Reflects on His Role in Lives|date=September 5, 1997|website=The Virginian Pilot|language=en-US}}

|Norfolk Juvenile and Domestic District Court (1976–1997)

|Virginia

|deceased

|Michelle Moore{{Cite web|date=2022-02-15|title=Judicial Limelight: Michelle Moore|url=https://www.lawdragon.com/news-features/2022-02-15-judicial-limelight-michelle-moore|access-date=2022-02-25|website=Lawdragon|language=en}}

|314th District Court (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|Raymond P. Moore{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394156|title=Raymond P. Moore|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Colorado (2013– )

|Colorado

|active

|Terry F. Moorer{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/5152931|title=Moorer, Terry Fitzgerald|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=August 26, 2021|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (2007–2018); United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama (2018– )

|Alabama

|active

|Michael R. Morgan{{Cite web|url=https://www.nccourts.gov/judicial-directory/michael-morgan|title=Michael Morgan {{!}} North Carolina Judicial Branch|website=www.nccourts.gov|access-date=February 19, 2020}}

|Supreme Court of North Carolina (2016– )

|North Carolina

|active

|Ernest Nathan Morial{{Cite web|url=https://aaregistry.org/story/bayou-state-legend-ernest-morial-lawyer-mayor-judge/|title=Bayou state legend, Ernest Morial, lawyer, mayor, judge|website=AAREG|access-date=January 24, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Louisiana Juvenile Court (1970–1974); Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal (1974–1977)

|Louisiana

|deceased

|Brittanye Morris{{Cite web|last=Ketterer|first=Samantha|date=2021-06-11|title=Harris County judge removed from civil case helped bail defendant out of jail|url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Harris-County-judge-recused-from-civil-case-16242195.php|access-date=2022-02-24|website=Houston Chronicle|language=en-US}}

|Harris County District Court (2021– )

|Texas

|active

|Carl W. Morris{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/3-way-race-for-Alameda-County-Superior-Court-seat-3589743.php|title=3-way race for Alameda County Superior Court seat|last=Egelko|first=Bob|date=May 28, 2012|website=SFGate|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Alameda County Municipal Court (1988–1993); Alameda County Superior Court (1993–2012)

|California

|retired

|Denise Langford Morris{{Cite web|url=https://www.mlive.com/politics/2010/10/detroit-area_judge_says_suprem.html|title=Detroit-area judge says 'Supreme Court needs me (2019-04-03)|website=Michigan LIVE|date=October 3, 2010|language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Denise Langford Morris, JAMS Mediator and Arbitrator |url=https://www.jamsadr.com/langford |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=www.jamsadr.com |language=en}}

|Oakland County Circuit Court (1992–2022)

|Michigan

|retired

|Elizabeth Morris{{Cite web|url=https://www.capitalgazette.com/news/ac-cn-circuit-court-judges-0922-story.html|title=Anne Arundel County's first female African-American Circuit Court judge appointed as three vacancies filled (2018-09-21)|website=Capital Gazette|language=en-US}}

|Anne Arundel County Circuit Court (2018– )

|Maryland

|active

|Angil Morris-Jones{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/351628-african-american-women-on-the-california-bench-a-history|title=African American Women on the California Bench: A History|date=March 26, 2019|website=www.dailyjournal.com|access-date=February 12, 2020}}{{Cite web |title=Angil Patricia Morris # 82441 - Attorney Licensee Search |url=https://apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/82441 |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=apps.calbar.ca.gov}}

|Merced County Superior Court (appt. 1997)

|California

|retired or lost reelection

|Franklin Morton Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/new-york-state-supreme-court-judge-franklin-morton-jr-dies-94-blog-entry-1.1997115|title=Former New York State Supreme Court Judge Franklin Morton Jr. dies at 94|last=Katz|first=Celeste|website=nydailynews.com|access-date=February 17, 2020}}

|New York Municipal Court (appt. 1958); New York State Supreme Court (elect. 1969)

|New York

|deceased

|Constance Baker Motley{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/09/10/archives/mrs-motley-inducted-as-federal-judge-backing-for-sutton-republicans.html|title=Mrs. Motley Inducted as Federal Judge; Backing for Sutton Republicans Sit Tight|last=Hofmann|first=Paul|date=September 10, 1966|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 15, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1966–2005)

|New York

|deceased

|Harriet Mitchell Murphy{{Cite web|url=http://diversity.utexas.edu/integration/2016/04/harriet-murphy/|title=Harriet Murphy|website=University of Texas at Austin|date=April 14, 2016 |access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Austin Municipal Court (1973–1993)

|Texas

|retired

|Richard E. Myers II{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/7470666|title=Myers, Richard Ernest II|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=October 29, 2021|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina (2019– )

|North Carolina

|active

|Julien Neals{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/10226111|title=Neals, Julien Xavier|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=June 8, 2021|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (2021– )

|New Jersey

|active

|Adrienne Nelson{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13263786|title=Nelson, Adrienne Camille|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=February 15, 2023|language=en-US}}

|Multnomah County Circuit Court (2006–2018); Supreme Court of Oregon (2018–2023); United States District Court for the District of Oregon (2023– )

|Oregon

|active

|David Sutherland Nelson{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1385616|title=Nelson, David Sutherland|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 11, 2023|language=en-US}}

|Massachusetts Superior Court (1973–1979); United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1979–1998)

|Massachusetts

|deceased

|P. Scott Neville Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagobusiness.com/government/look-millions-raised-key-county-races|title=A look at the millions raised in key county races|date=March 3, 2020|website=Crain's Chicago Business|language=en|access-date=March 15, 2020}}

|Illinois Supreme Court (2018– )

|Illinois

|active

|Irma Newburn{{Cite web|url=https://www.kswo.com/story/33132005/newest-judge-excited-to-serve-community/|title=Newest judge excited to serve community (2016-09-19)|website=ABC 7 News|language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Hutchison |first=Will |date=2021-10-25 |title=Comanche County judge appointed to role as federal immigration judge |url=https://www.kswo.com/2021/10/25/comanche-county-judge-appointed-role-federal-immigration-judge/ |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=KSWO-TV 7News |language=en}}

|Oklahoma Fifth Judicial Circuit (2016–2021)

Federal Immigration Judge

(2021–)

|Oklahoma

Tennessee

|active

|Clifton B. Newman{{Cite web|title=SC Judicial Branch|url=https://www.sccourts.org/circuitCourt/displaycirjudge.cfm?judgeid=2127|access-date=2022-02-26|website=www.sccourts.org}}

|South Carolina Circuit Court (2000–2023)

|South Carolina

|retired

|Jocelyn Newman{{Cite web|title=SC Judicial Branch|url=https://www.sccourts.org/circuitCourt/displaycirjudge.cfm?judgeid=2757|access-date=2022-02-26|website=www.sccourts.org}}

|South Carolina Circuit Court (2016– )

|South Carolina

|active

|Tara L. Newman{{Cite web|title=Governor Newsom Balancing the Playing Field - Black Judicial Appointments|url=https://www.pasadenajournal.com/governor-newsom-balancing-the-playing-field---black-judicial-appointments.html|access-date=September 9, 2021|website=Pasadena / San Gabriel Valley Journal|language=en}}

|Los Angeles County Superior Court (2021– )

|California

|active

|Robert N. C. Nix Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-aug-27-me-passings27.2-story.html|title=Robert N.C. Nix Jr., 75; First Black Chief Justice of Any State (2003-08-27)|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|date=August 27, 2003}}

|Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1972–1996)

|Pennsylvania

|deceased

|Troy L. Nunley{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/nunley-troy-lynne|title=Nunley, Troy L.|website=www.fjc.gov|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Sacramento County Superior Court (2002–2012); United States District Court for the Eastern District of California (2013– )

|California

|active

|Jimmy Nunn{{Cite web|url=https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2018/07/29/humble-past-public-servant-nunn-ready-new-office/849647002/|title=From humble past to public servant, Nunn ready for new office|website=Montgomery Advertiser|access-date=July 29, 2018|language=en-US}}

|Dallas County Probate Court (2018– )

|Alabama

|active

|Edirin Okoloko{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/governor-appoints-superior-court-judge-who-lost-election/|title=Governor appoints Superior Court judge who lost election|website=HeraldNet|date=January 22, 2020|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Snohomish County Superior Court (2020– )

|Washington

|active

|Eileen A. Olds{{Cite web|url=https://law.wm.edu/news/stories/2007/judge-eileen-a.-olds-82-inaugurated-as-president-of-american-judges-association.php|title=Judge Eileen A. Olds '82 Inaugurated as President of American Judges Association|website=William & Mary Law School|access-date=January 21, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court (1995–2019)

|Virginia

|retired

|Solomon Oliver Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1385966|title=Solomon Oliver Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (1994– )

|Ohio

|active

|Vernon D. Oliver{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761001|title=Oliver, Vernon Dion|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=September 19, 2023|language=en-US}}

|Connecticut Superior Court (2009–2023); United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (2023– )

|Connecticut

|active

|Dayo O. Onanubosi{{Cite web|url=https://www.idahopress.com/news/nampa-s-onanubosi-named-magistrate-judge-first-african-american-to/article_d7ac9b0c-682a-5157-a781-20764b31eec8.html|title=Nampa's Onanubosi named magistrate judge; First African-American to hold position (2009-06-29)|website=Idaho Press|language=en-US}}

|Idaho Third Judicial District (2009– )

|Idaho

|active

|Revius Ortique Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/honorable-revius-oliver-ortique-jr|title=The Honorable Revius Oliver Ortique, Jr.|website=The HistoryMakers|access-date=January 24, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Supreme Court of Louisiana (elec. 1992)

|Louisiana

|deceased

|Alexis Otis-Lewis{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=08EDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA27|title=Atty. Otis-Lewis Elected to Bench in St. Louis (1992-08-10)|website=Jet Magazine|date=August 10, 1992|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|language=en-US}}

|St. Clair County Court (1992–2009)

|Illinois

|retired

|Jalilah Otto{{Cite web |title=Division 15 - Judge Jalilah Otto - 16th Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri |url=https://www.16thcircuit.org/division-15-judge-jalilah-otto |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=www.16thcircuit.org}}

|Jackson County Circuit Court (2017– )

|Missouri

|active

|Morris Overstreet{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/overstreet-morris-1950/|title=Morris Overstreet (1950– )|website=BlackPast.org|date=August 5, 2018|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (1991–1999)

|Texas

|term ended

|Charles L. Owens{{Cite web|url=https://oklahoman.com/article/5500888/charles-l-owens-states-first-appointed-black-judge-dies-at-86?|title=Charles L. Owens, state's first appointed black judge, dies at 86|website=The Oklahoman|access-date=May 27, 2016|language=en-US|date=May 27, 2016}}

|Oklahoma County District Court (1968–1998)

|Oklahoma

|deceased

|Alan Page{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WqpfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3339,4146465|title=Lewiston Morning Tribune – Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|Supreme Court of Minnesota (1993–2015)

|Minnesota

|retired

|Myles Paige{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/paige-myles-anderson-1898-1983/|title=MYLES ANDERSON PAIGE (1898–1983) |website=BlackPast.org|date=June 23, 2011 |access-date=January 27, 2020|language=en-US}}

|New York City Criminal Court (1939–1956); Domestic Relations Court (1958–1966)

|New York

|deceased

|Wilma Palmer{{Cite web|url=https://www.kswo.com/story/33132005/newest-judge-excited-to-serve-community/|title=Court's first black female judge sworn in (2007-02-13)|website=TulsaWorld|language=en-US}}

|Tulsa County District Court (2007– )

|Oklahoma

|active

|Darrel J. Papillion{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13675556|title=Papillion, Darrel James|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=May 31, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (2023– )

|Louisiana

|active

|Barrington D. Parker{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1386071|title=Parker, Barrington Daniels, Sr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 11, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1969–1993)

|Washington, D.C.

|deceased

|Barrington D. Parker Jr.{{Cite web|url= https://www.fjc.gov/node/1386076|title=Barrington Daniels Parker Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1994–2001); United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2001– )

|New York

|active

|Gerald Parker{{Cite web|url= https://dayton247now.com/news/local/two-miami-valley-men-make-history-as-the-first-african-americans-in-their-positions|title=Two Miami Valley men make history as the first African Americans in their positions (2019-01-15)|website=Dayton News|date=January 15, 2019|language=en-US}}

|Montgomery County Common Pleas Court (2019– )

|Ohio

|active

|Linda Vivienne Parker{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394406|title=Linda Vivienne Parker|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (2014– )

|Michigan

|active

|James Benton Parsons{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1386126|title=Parsons, James Benton|website=www.fjc.gov|access-date=January 25, 2020}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1961–1993)

|Illinois

|deceased

|Thomas H. Parrott{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-29-op-63480-story.html|title=Schwartz, Hauptman, Coen, Block as Judges : Endorsements for four seats on the Superior Court|date=May 29, 1994|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|access-date=January 17, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.metnews.com/endmomarch06.html|title=End of the Month|website=www.metnews.com|access-date=January 17, 2020}}

|Los Angeles Superior Court (Commissioner: 1990–2006)

|California

|retired

|Cecil B. Patterson Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://asunow.asu.edu/20170224-arizona-impact-asu-law-establishes-scholarship-trailblazing-black-judge|title=ASU Law establishes endowment for trailblazing black judge|website=Montgomery Advertiser|access-date=February 24, 2017|language=en-US|date=February 24, 2017}}

|Maricopa County Superior Court (1980–1991); Arizona First Appellate Court (1995–2003)

|Arizona

|retired

|Gary D. Payne{{Cite web|url=https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/1143|title=Payne, Gary D. · Notable Kentucky African Americans Database|website=nkaa.uky.edu|access-date=January 25, 2020}}

|Fayette County Court (1988–2011)

|Kentucky

|retired

|Latosha Lewis Payne{{Cite web|title=Harris County District Courts|url=https://www.justex.net/Courts/Civil/CivilCourt.aspx?crt=2|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.justex.net}}

|Harris County District Court (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|Sandra Peake{{Cite web|title=Harris County District Courts|url=https://www.justex.net/Courts/Family/FamilyCourt.aspx?crt=54|access-date=2022-02-25|website=www.justex.net}}

|Harris County District Court (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|Benita Y. Pearson{{Cite web|url=http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/07/benita_pearson_recommended_to.html|title=Benita Pearson recommended to federal judgeship (2009-07-21)|website=The Plain Dealer|language=en-US|date=July 21, 2009}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (2008– )

|Ohio

|active

|John Garrett Penn{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1386231|title=Penn, John Garrett|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 11, 2023|language=en-US}}

|District of Columbia Court of General Sessions (1970–1971); Superior Court of the District of Columbia (1971–1979); United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1979–2007)

|Washington, D.C.

|deceased

|Mia Roberts Perez{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/12912486|title=Perez, Mia Roberts|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 11, 2023|language=en-US}}

|Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas (2016–2022); United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2022– )

|Pennsylvania

|active

|James E.C. Perry{{Cite web|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2003-02-14-0302140413-story.html|title=Circuit Jurist Selected To Be Chief Judge (2003-02-14)|website=FHN|language=en-US}}

|Florida 18th Judicial Circuit (1999–2009); Supreme Court of Florida (2009–2016)

|Florida

|retired

|Matthew J. Perry{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/wright-jonathan-j-1840-1885/|title= Jonathan J. Wright (1840–1885)|website=BlackPast.org|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US|date= January 29, 2007}}

|United States Court of Military Appeals (1976–1979); United States District Court for the District of South Carolina (1979–2011)

|South Carolina

|deceased

|Fredericka Phillips{{Cite web|title=Harris County District Courts|url=https://www.justex.net/Courts/Civil/CivilCourt.aspx?crt=3|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.justex.net}}

|Harris County District Court (2016– )

|Texas

|active

|Vel Phillips{{Cite web|url=https://uwm.edu/marchonmilwaukee/keyterms/phillips-vel/|title=Phillips, Vel {{!}} March on Milwaukee – Libraries Digital Collection|language=en-US|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|Milwaukee County Circuit Court (1971–1978)

|Wisconsin

|deceased

|Kenneth A. Phipps{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/06/archives/kenneth-phipps-judge-since-1958-exlegislator-on-criminal-court.html|title=Kenneth Phipps, Judge Since – Ex-Legislator, on Criminal Court Bench, Is Dead|date=February 6, 1968|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 17, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

|Criminal Court of the City of New York (1958–1968)

|New York

|deceased

|Risë Jones Pichon{{Cite web|url=https://www.kqed.org/news/10394204/santa-clara-countys-new-top-judge-is-first-minority-and-a-testament-to-change|title=Santa Clara County's New Top Judge Is First Minority and a 'Testament to Change'|date=January 4, 2015|website=KQED|language=en-us|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Santa Clara Municipal Court (Commissioner: 1983–1984; Judge 1984–1998); Santa Clara Superior Court (1998–2019)

|California

|retired

|Juan Pickett{{Cite web|url= https://www.houmatimes.com/news/lafourche-terrebonne-judges-take-oath-of-offices/|title= Lafourche, Terrebonne judges take oath of offices (2014-09-28)|website=Houma Times|date= January 2, 2015|language=en-US}}

|Louisiana 32nd Judicial District (2015– )

|Louisiana

|active

|Lawrence W. Pierce{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1386341|title=Pierce, Lawrence Warren|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 1, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1971–1981); United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1981–1995)

|New York

|retired

|Victor Pippins Jr.{{Cite web |title=One of California's youngest judges credits his career success to McGeorge's trial advocacy program |url=https://www.pacific.edu/pacific-newsroom/one-californias-youngest-judges-credits-his-career-success-mcgeorges-trial |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=www.pacific.edu |language=en}}

|San Diego County Superior Court (2020– )

|California

|active

|Freddy Pitcher Jr.{{Cite web|url=http://files.lsba.org/documents/News/LSBANews/2015PitcherResolution.pdf|title=A Resolution Honoring Hon. Freddie Pitcher, Jr|website=Louisiana State Bar Association|access-date=January 24, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Louisiana 19th Judicial District Court; Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal

|Louisiana

|retired

|Elizabeth Davis Pittman{{Cite web|url=https://www.omaha.com/opinion/editorial-elizabeth-davis-pittman-nebraska-s-first-black-judge-left/article_52ad6aae-b6a1-5967-a270-3c2a7d814015.html|title=Editorial: Elizabeth Davis Pittman, Nebraska's first black judge, left an admirable legacy|website=AZCentral|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Omaha Municipal Court (1971–1986)

|Nebraska

|deceased

|Donald F. Pitts{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VM2txerIcowC&pg=PA69|title=Black Elected Officials 1991: A National Roster|last=Carson|first=Emmett Devon|date=1992|publisher=University Press of America|isbn=978-0-941410-80-9|language=en}}

|Los Angeles Superior Court (appt. 1984)

|California

|retired

|Marlon Polk{{Cite web|url=https://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/heineman-appoints-state-s-first-black-district-court-judge/article_fcb009f2-9dc1-53cd-8330-30d8c16d0724.html|title=Heineman appoints state's first black district court judge (2005-03-30)|website=Lincoln Journal Star|language=en-US}}

|Fourth Judicial District Court (2005– )

|Nebraska

|active

|Cecil F. Poole{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Judge-Cecil-Poole-Pioneering-Black-California-2795747.php|title=Judge Cecil Poole, Pioneering Black California Jurist|last=Wallace|first=Bill|date=November 14, 1997|website=SFGate|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of California (1976–1980); United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1979–1997)

|California

|deceased

|David M. Porter{{Cite web|url=https://www.iowacourts.gov/iowa-courts/district-court/judicial-district-5/judges-and-magistrates/david-m-porter/|title=David M. Porter|website=Iowa Judicial Branch|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Iowa District Court (2015– )

|Iowa

|active

|John D. Posten{{Cite web|url=https://mhs.mt.gov/Shpo/AfricanAmericans/History/Timeline|title=African Americans in Montana Timeline|website=Montana Historical Society|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Montana (United States Commissioner: 1893–1917)

|Montana

|deceased

|Cleo Powell{{Cite web|url=http://wjla.com/news/local/cleo-powell-va-s-first-black-female-justice-to-be-sworn-in--68150|title=Cleo Powell, Va.'s first black female justice to be sworn in|website=WJLA|date=October 21, 2011|access-date=October 18, 2015|language=en-US}}

|Virginia Court of Appeals (2008–2011); Supreme Court of Virginia (2011– )

|Virginia

|active

|Tanya Walton Pratt{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393246|title=Pratt, Tanya Walton|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana (2010– )

|Indiana

|active

|William A. Price{{Cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2019/02/23/was-craig-watkins-the-first-black-da-in-texas-historians-find-evidence-of-another/|title=Was Craig Watkins the first black DA in Texas? Historians find evidence of another (2019-02-23)|website=Dallas News|date=February 23, 2019|language=en-US}}

|Justice of the Peace for Matagorda (appt. 1872)

|Texas

|deceased

|John E. Prim{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/prim-john-e-1898-1961/|title=John E. Prim (1898–1961)|website=BlackPast.orgl|date=February 12, 2007|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Seattle Municipal Court (Judge pro tem: appt. 1954)

|Washington

|deceased

|Doris Pryor{{Cite web |date=May 12, 2022 |title=Alumna Doris Pryor, '03, nominated to Seventh Circuit – Maurer School of Law |url=https://blogs.iu.edu/maurerlaw/2022/05/26/alumna-doris-pryor-03-nominated-to-seventh-circuit/ |access-date=August 11, 2022 |website=blogs.iu.edu}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana (2018–2022); United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (2022– )

|Indiana

|active

|Jason K. Pulliam{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/6840711|title=Pulliam, Jason Kenneth|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=August 26, 2021|language=en-US}}

|Texas Fourth Court of Appeals (2015–2016); United States District Court for the Western District of Texas (2019– )

|Texas

|active

|Rudolph R. Pyle III{{Cite web|url=http://www.indianapolisrecorder.com/news/features/article_68013f4a-9192-53bd-bb95-1ea922b303c9.html|title=Rudolph R. Pyle III: Madison County's first Black judge brings wisdom and reform to the bench (2010-02-17)|website=Indianapolis Recorder|language=en-US}}

|Madison County Circuit Court (2009–2012); Indiana Court of Appeals (2012– )

|Indiana

|active

|William D. Quarles Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1391746|title=William D. Quarles Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Maryland (2003–2016)

|Maryland

|retired

|Peggy Quince{{Cite web|url=http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/justices/quince.shtml|title=Profile of Peggy A. Quince|website=Supreme Court of Florida|language=en-US|access-date=January 25, 2020|archive-date=June 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606081527/http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/justices/quince.shtml|url-status=dead}}

|Supreme Court of Florida (1999–2019)

|Florida

|retired

|Henry Ramsey Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Henry-Ramsey-Jr-warrior-for-justice-dies-at-5319665.php|title=Henry Ramsey Jr., 'warrior for justice,' dies at 80|last=Lee|first=Henry K.|date=March 15, 2014|website=SFGate|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Alameda County Superior Court (1981–1990)

|California

|deceased

|Murlene J. Randle{{Cite web|date=November 14, 2020|title=Governor Newsom Appoints 19 Superior Court Judges 11.13.20|url=https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/11/13/governor-newsom-appoints-19-superior-court-judges-11-13-20/|access-date=November 16, 2020|website=California Governor|language=en}}

|San Francisco County Superior Court (2020– )

|California

|active

|Robin Ransom{{cite web |url=https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article251653058.html |title=Parson appoints Robin Ransom, first Black woman to serve on Missouri Supreme Court |date=May 24, 2021 |last=Kuang |first=Jeanne |website=The Kansas City Star |access-date=May 25, 2021}}

|St. Louis County Family Court (2002–2008); 22nd Judicial Circuit Court (2008–2018); Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District (2019–2021); Missouri Supreme Court (2021– )

|Missouri

|active

|Nusrat Rashid{{Cite web|url=https://www.delcotimes.com/news/local/trailblazing-women-st-african-american-woman-on-delco-council-st/article_a776a628-0315-11ea-bda0-7f203488648a.html|title=Trailblazing Women; 1st African-American woman on Delco Council; 1st African-American woman on Delco bench; 1st Muslim judge in state election (2019-11-10)|website=DT|language=en-US}}

|Delaware County Court of Common Pleas (2019– )

|Pennsylvania

|active

|Monique F. Rauls{{Cite web|url=https://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/2015/01/23/rauls-makes-history-becoming-rapides-parish-judge/22242599/|title=Rauls makes history by becoming first African-American female judge of Rapides Parish (2015-01-23)|website=Town Talk|language=en-US}}

| Louisiana 9th Judicial District Court (2015– )

|Louisiana

|active

|Johnnie B. Rawlinson{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/rawlinson-johnnie-b|title=Rawlinson, Johnnie B.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Nevada (1998–2000); United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2000– )

|Nevada

|active

|Thomas J. Reddick Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-ne-broward-courthouse-named-skip-campbell-20181120-story.html|title=Broward courthouse wings to be named for Coral Springs mayor and county's first black judge (2018-11-20)|website=Sun Sentinel|language=en-US}}

|Broward County Court of Record; Florida Circuit Court

|Florida

|deceased

|Carlton W. Reeves{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393566|title=Carlton W. Reeves|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (2010– )

|Mississippi

|active

|Dawna F. Reeves{{Cite web|url=https://www.modbee.com/news/article3115390.html|title=Governor appoints new judge in Stanislaus County|date=September 12, 2008|website=The Modesto Bee|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150312194248/http://www.modbee.com/news/article3115390.html|archive-date=March 12, 2015}}

|Stanislaus County Superior Court (2008– )

|California

|active

|Sheldon K. Rennie{{Cite web|url=https://courts.delaware.gov/superior/aboutus/judges_profile_jscott.aspx|title=The Honorable Sheldon K. Rennie, Judge|website=Delaware Courts|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Superior Court of Delaware (2018– )

|Delaware

|active

|Gloria Clark Reno{{Cite web|url=http://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/gloria-clark-reno-becomes-st-louis-county-s-first-black/article_9bcd8ada-d152-11e8-9f99-4337b90e7619.html|title=Gloria Clark Reno becomes St. Louis County's first black presiding judge (2018-10-16)|website=The St. Louis American|language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Governor Parson Announces First Assistant Attorney General Thomas Albus as Circuit Judge for the 21st Judicial Circuit {{!}} Governor Michael L. Parson |url=https://governor.mo.gov/press-releases/archive/governor-parson-announces-first-assistant-attorney-general-thomas-albus |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=governor.mo.gov}}

|Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit (2002–2020)

|Missouri

|retired

|Dianne Renwick{{Cite web|url=http://www.courts.state.ny.us/courts/ad1/justicesofthecourt/justices_renwick.shtml|title=Appellate Division – First Judicial Department|website=www.courts.state.ny.us|access-date=January 24, 2020}}

|New York City Civil Court (1977–2001); New York Supreme Court (2001–2008); Supreme Court, First Judicial Department (2008– )

|New York

|active

|Edward A. Reid{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Alq-AqtCuc8C&pg=PA4924|title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress|date=1961|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|language=en}}

|Camden County Domestic Relations Court (appt. 1956)

|New Jersey

|deceased

|Robert L. Reid{{Cite web|url=https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1856&context=facpub|title=Blacks in the Nevada Legal Profession (Winter 2013)|website=UNLW School of Law|language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Rachel J. |date=2013 |title=Blacks in the Nevada Legal Profession |url=https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1856&context=facpub |access-date=November 11, 2023 |website=University of Nevada}}

|Las Vegas Alternate Municipal Court (appt. 1966-1970) Justice of the Peace for Las Vegas Township (1970– )

|Nevada

|active{{Cite web |last=Scott, Esq |first=Brayan K |date=February 2021 |title=Nevada African American Attorney "Firsts" |url=https://www.nvbar.org/wp-content/uploads/NevadaLawyer_Feb2021_AfricanAmericanFirsts.pdf |access-date=November 11, 2023 |website=State Bar of Nevada}}

|Scoval Richardson{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1392906/|title=Scovel Richardson|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States Customs Court (1957–1980); United States Court of International Trade (1980–1982)

|New York

|deceased

|Tony L. Richardson{{Cite web|title=Brown Names 30 to Superior Courts, Including 11 in Los Angeles|url=http://www.metnews.com/articles/2012/appt122812.htm|access-date=2022-02-20|website=www.metnews.com}}

|Los Angeles County Superior Court (2012– )

|California

|active

|Moxey Rigby{{Cite journal|url=https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/firsts/13/|title=Moxey Alexander Rigby, Class of 1925, First African American Judge Elected in Nassau County|journal=Nyls "Firsts"|date=January 2018|access-date=January 27, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Nassau County District Court (elect. 1959)

|New York

|deceased

|Elizabeth Riggs{{Cite web|url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/sd-me-judge-riggs-20170202-story.html|title=Judge Elizabeth Riggs, first black female judge in San Diego, dies at 75|date=February 4, 2017|website=San Diego Union-Tribune|language=en-US|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|San Diego Superior Court (1979–2011)

|California

|deceased

|Frances E. Rivers{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/29/archives/francis-e-rivers-dies-black-city-judge-was-82.html|title=Francis E. Rivers Dies; Black City Judge Was 82 (1975-07-29) |website=The New York Times|date=July 29, 1975 |language=en-US|last1=Fowle |first1=Farnsworth }}

|New York City Court (1943–1963)

|New York

|deceased

|Andree Layton Roaf{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/allen-macon-bolling-1816-1894/|title=Macon Bolling Allen (1816–1894)|website=BlackPast.org|date=December 31, 2008|access-date=January 27, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Arkansas Supreme Court (1995–1996); Arkansas Court of Appeals (1996–2006)

|Arkansas

|retired

|Richard W. Roberts{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1390721|title=Richard W. Roberts|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1998– )

|Washington, D.C.

|inactive

|Terrie E. Roberts{{Cite web|title=Judicial Profile: San Diego County Judge Terrie Roberts|url=https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/judicial-profile-san-diego-county-judge-terrie-roberts|access-date=February 3, 2021|website=California Courts Newsroom|language=en|archive-date=November 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124102448/https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/judicial-profile-san-diego-county-judge-terrie-roberts|url-status=dead}}

|San Diego County Superior Court (2019– )

|California

|active

|Victoria A. Roberts{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1390716|title=Victoria A. Roberts|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1998–2023)

|Michigan

|retired

|Alfred S. Robbins{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/08/classified/paid-notice-deaths-robbins-hon-alfred-s.html|title=Deaths—Robbins, Hon. ALfred S. (2003-10-08)|website=The New York Times|date=October 8, 2003|language=en-US}}

|New York State Supreme Court (appt. 1979)

|New York

|deceased

|Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1387026|title=Robinson, Aubrey Eugene, Jr.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 11, 2023|language=en-US}}

|Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia (1965–1966); United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1966–2000)

|Washington, D.C.

|deceased

|G. Bruce Robinson{{Cite web|url=http://www.longroadtojustice.org/people/judges.php|title=Long Road to Justice|website=www.longroadtojustice.org|access-date=February 17, 2020}}

|Boston Juvenile Court (appt. 1948)

|Massachusetts

|deceased

|Julie A. Robinson{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/robinson-julie-.|title=Robinson, Julie A.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Kansas (2001– )

|Kansas

|active

|Richard A. Robinson{{Cite web|url=https://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-senate-robinson-chief-justice-20180503-story.html|title=Senate Approves Richard Robinson As First African-American Chief Justice Of The State Supreme Court|website=Hartford Courant|date=May 3, 2018 |access-date=May 3, 2018|language=en-US}}

|Connecticut Supreme Court (2013–2024)

|Connecticut

|retired

|Spottswood William Robinson III{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1387041|title=Robinson, Spottswood William III|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 14, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1964–1966); United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1966–1998)

|Washington, D.C.

|deceased

|Stephen C. Robinson{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1391976|title=Robinson, Stephen C.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 14, 2023|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (2003–2010)

|New York

|resigned

|Edward Rodgers{{Cite web|url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20181020/edward-rodgers-civil-rights-pioneer-and-countys-first-black-judge-dead-at-91|title=Edward Rodgers, civil rights pioneer and county's first black judge, dead at 91 (2018-10-20)|website=The Palm Beach Post|language=en-US}}

|Palm Beach County Court (1973–1995)

|Florida

|deceased

|Dawn Rogers{{Cite web|title=Meet the New Harris County Judges|url=https://www.hba.org/?pg=judicial-interviews|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.hba.org}}

|Harris County District Court (2021– )

|Texas

|active

|Judith Ann Wilson Rogers{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1387091|title=Rogers, Judith Ann Wilson|website=www.fjc.gov|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|District of Columbia Court of Appeals (1983–1994); United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1994– )

|Washington, D.C.

|active

|Eleanor L. Ross{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394656|title=Eleanor Louise Ross|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (2014– )

|Georgia

|active

|Joseph D. Roulhac{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/honorable-joseph-roulhac|title=The Honorable Joseph Roulhac|website=The HistoryMakers|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Akron Municipal Court (1967–1987)

|Ohio

|deceased

|Robert D. Rucker{{Cite web|url=http://indianacourts.us/times/2018/01/justice-rucker-inducted-into-military-veterans-hall-of-fame/|title=Justice Rucker inducted into Military Veterans Hall of Fame (2018-01-24)|website=Indiana Court Times|language=en-US}}

|Supreme Court of Indiana (1999–2017)

|Indiana

|retired

|George Lewis Ruffin{{Cite web|url=http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/ruffin-george-lewis-1834a-1886|title=George Lewish Ruffin (1834–1886)|website=BlackPost.org|date=January 19, 2007|access-date=January 27, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Municipal Court, Charlestown District (appt. 1883)

|Massachusetts

|deceased

|John "Jack" H. Ruffin Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.augustachronicle.com/article/20100130/NEWS/301309942|title=Pioneering Augusta black jurist Ruffin passes away|last=Cooper|first=Sylvia|website=The Augusta Chronicle|language=en|access-date=March 14, 2020}}

|Georgia Court of Appeals (1994–2008)

|Georgia

|deceased

|George L. Russell Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/011500/011548/html/11548bio.html|title=George L. Russell, MSA SC 3520-11548|website=msa.maryland.gov|access-date=January 27, 2020}}

|Supreme Bench of Baltimore (1966–1968)

|Maryland

|retired

|George L. Russell III{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393981|title=Russell, George Levi III|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 14, 2023|language=en-US}}

|Maryland Circuit Court, Baltimore City (2007–2012); United States District Court for the District of Maryland (2012– )

|Maryland

|active

|Edith S. Sampson{{Cite web|url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1101005|title=Sampson, Edith Spurlock (1901–1979), lawyer and judge |work= American National Biography|year=2000 |language=en|doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1101005|access-date=January 25, 2020|last1=Shoemaker |first1=Rebecca S. |isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 }}

|Municipal Court of Chicago (1962–1966); Circuit Court of Cook County (1966–1978)

|Illinois

|deceased

|James B. Sanderlin{{Cite web|url=https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/Justices/Former-Justices/Justice-Leander-J.-Shaw-Jr|title=Justice Leander J. Shaw, Jr. – Supreme Court|website=Florida Supreme Court|access-date=January 24, 2020|language=en-US}}

| Pinellas County Court (1972–1985); Florida District Court of Appeals (1985–1987)

|Florida

|deceased

|Willie Louis Sands{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1387366|title=Willie Louis Sands|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia (1994– )

|Georgia

|inactive

|Anita L. Santos{{Cite web|url=http://cclawyerarchive.cccba.org/2015/11/getting-to-know-judge-anita-santos/|title=Getting to Know Judge Anita Santos : Contra Costa Lawyer Online|access-date=January 16, 2020}}{{Cite web |title=Santos, Anita {{!}} ADR Services, Inc. |url=https://www.adrservices.com/neutrals/santos-anita/ |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=www.adrservices.com}}

|Contra Costa County Superior Court (Commissioner: 2012–2014; Judge: 2014–2022)

|California

|retired

|Ruth Sconiers{{Cite web|url=https://buffalonews.com/2016/01/03/off-the-bench-sconiers-will-still-be-at-the-table/|title=Off the bench, Sconiers will still be 'at the table' (2016-01-03)|website=The Buffalo News|language=en-US}}

|Buffalo City Court (1987–1993); New York Supreme Court 8th Judicial District (1993–2010); New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department (2010–2016)

|New York

|retired

|Calvin L. Scott Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://courts.delaware.gov/superior/aboutus/judges_profile_jscott.aspx|title=The Honorable Calvin L. Scott Jr., Judge|website=Delaware Courts|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Superior Court of Delaware (2003– )

|Delaware

|active

|Elisha Scott{{Cite web|url=http://www.gcbalaw.org/page.cfm?pageid=32|title=Through the Years With the GCBA A Centennial Historical Overview 1897– 1997 (with updates through 2006)|website=Genesee County Bar Association|language=en-US|access-date=January 27, 2020}}{{Cite web |title=Elisha Scott - Kansas Historical Society |url=https://www.kshs.org/p/elisha-scott/19510 |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=www.kshs.org}}

|Michigan Department of Labor

|Michigan

|deceased

|Gregory Kellam Scott{{Cite web|url=https://extras.denverpost.com/news/news0425b.htm|title=Coats to don Supreme Court robe|website=Denver Post|access-date=January 17, 2019|language=en-US}}

|Colorado Supreme Court (1992–2000)

|Colorado

|resigned

|Kai Scott{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/12912491|title=Scott, Kai Niambi|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=2022-12-14|language=en-US}}

|Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas (2015–2022); United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2022– )

|Pennsylvania

|active

|Mary Stenson Scriven{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1392781|title=Mary Stenson Scriven|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 17, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida (2008– )

|Florida

|active

|Renard F. Shepard{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/directo_xxx_2001_00_0329|url-access=registration|title=The Directory of Minority Judges of the United States|date=January 1, 2001|publisher=American Bar Association, Judicial Division, Standing Committee on Minorities in the Judiciary|isbn=9781570739453|language=en}}

|Sacramento County Municipal Court (1998–1998); Sacramento County Superior Court (1998– )

|California

|retired

|Leah Ward Sears{{Cite web |url=https://www.gpbnews.org/post/beyond-bench-former-chief-justice-leah-ward-sears-life-breaking-barriers |title=Beyond The Bench: Former Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears On A Life Of Breaking Barriers |first1=Emilia |last1=Brock |first2=Virginia |last2=Prescott |first3=Bram |last3=Sable-Smith |website=www.gpbnews.org |language=en |access-date=January 15, 2020 |archive-date=June 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627212101/https://www.gpbnews.org/post/beyond-bench-former-chief-justice-leah-ward-sears-life-breaking-barriers |url-status=dead }}

|Fulton County Superior Court (1988–1992); Supreme Court of Georgia (1992–2009)

|Georgia

|resigned

|Myra C. Selby{{Cite web |date=November 16, 2020 |title=Hon Myra C Selby |url=https://www.in.gov/courts/supreme/justices/myra-selby/ |access-date=September 2, 2022 |website=Indiana Supreme Court |language=en}}

|Indiana Supreme Court (1995–1999)

|Indiana

|retired

|Jamel K. Semper{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761371|title=Semper, Jamel Ken|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=2023-11-30|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (2023– )

|New Jersey

|active

|Phyllis Senegal{{Cite web|url= https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=INR19751220-01.1.1|title=Phyllis Senegal appointed first black woman judge in Indiana (1975-12-20)|website=Indianapolis Recorder|language=en-US}}

|Lake County Superior Court (appt. 1975)

|Indiana

|deceased

|Margaret B. Seymour{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1390861|title=Seymour, Margaret B.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of South Carolina (1996–2022)

|South Carolina

|retired

|Charles Alexander Shaw

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (1993–2020)

|Missouri

|deceased

|Leander J. Shaw Jr.

|Florida District Courts of Appeal (1979–1983); Supreme Court of Florida (1983–2003)

|Florida

|deceased

|Phrasel L. Shelton{{Cite web|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/02/memorial-service-set-for-san-mateo-countys-first-black-judge/|title=Memorial service set for San Mateo County's first black judge|date=February 3, 2018|website=The Mercury News|language=en-US|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|San Mateo Municipal Court (1976–1988); San Mateo County Superior Court (1988–2004)

|California

|deceased

|Rod Shelton

|San Diego County Superior Court (2007– )

|California

|active

|Michael A. Shipp{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394031|title=Shipp, Michael Andre|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=June 8, 2021|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (2007– )

|New Jersey

|active

|Benjamin Shobe{{Cite web|url=https://www.wlky.com/article/jefferson-county-s-first-african-american-circuit-judge-dies-at-95/3764194|title=Jefferson County's first African-American circuit judge dies at 95|last=Burgin|first=Steve|date=January 30, 2016|website=WLKY|language=en|access-date=January 25, 2020}}

|Jefferson County Circuit Court (1976–1992)

|Kentucky

|deceased

|Paul Allen Simmons{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1387836|title=Simmons, Paul Allen|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 23, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1978–2014)

|Pennsylvania

|deceased

|James E. Simmons Jr.{{Cite web |last=Sklar |first=Debbie L. |date=November 2, 2017 |title=Gov. Brown Appoints 2 to San Diego Superior Court Judgeships |url=https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2017/11/02/gov-brown-appoints-2-judgeships-to-san-diego-superior-court/ |access-date=July 14, 2022 |website=Times of San Diego |language=en-US}}

|San Diego County Superior Court (2017–2023); United States District Court for the Southern District of California (2023– )

|California

|active

|Leah Simms{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uUEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA23|title=County Judge is Florida's First Black Female Jurist (1982-02-04)|website=Jet|language=en-US|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|date=February 4, 1982}}

|Dade County Superior Court (appt. 1981)

|Florida

|retired

|Sandra A. Simms{{Cite web|title=Hawaiis First African American Woman Judge|url=https://thinktechhawaii.com/hawaiis-first-african-american-woman-judge/|access-date=2022-02-25|website=ThinkTech Hawaii|language=en-US}}

|Oahu Circuit Court (1991–2004)

|Hawaii

|retired

|Frederick Wayman "Duke" Slater{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ct-duke-slater-hall-of-fame-haugh-spt-0806-20170805-column.html|title=Duke Slater, pioneer Chicago Cardinal and city judge, deserves Hall of Fame spot|last=Haugh|first=David|website=chicagotribune.com|access-date=February 17, 2020}}

|Cook County Superior Court (appt. 1960)

|Illinois

|deceased

|Fred W. Slaughter{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/11662366|title=Slaughter, Fred Wallace|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 24, 2022|language=en-US}}

|Orange County Superior Court (2014–2022); United States District Court for the Central District of California (2022– )

|California

|active

|Gregory M. Sleet{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/honorable-gregory-sleet|title=The Honorable Gregory Sleet|website=The HistoryMakers|access-date=May 3, 2018|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Delaware (1998–2018)

|Delaware

|retired

|Charles Smiley{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/charles-smiley/|title=Charles Smiley|website=Berkeley Law|language=en-US|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|Alameda County Superior Court (Commissioner: 2007–2012; Judge: 2012– )

|California

|active

|Charles Z. Smith{{Cite web|url=http://www.theolympian.com/news/politics-government/article98774877.html|title=Charles Z. Smith, state's first African-American Supreme Court justice, dies at 89|website=The Olympian|access-date=August 30, 2016|language=en-US}}

|Supreme Court of Washington (1998–2002)

|Washington

|deceased

|Erithe A. Smith{{Cite web|url=https://www.cacb.uscourts.gov/judges/honorable-erithe-smith|title=Honorable Erithe A. Smith {{!}} Central District of California {{!}} United States Bankruptcy Court|website=www.cacb.uscourts.gov|access-date=January 16, 2020}}

|U.S. Bankruptcy Court—Central (1994– )

|California

|active

|George Bundy Smith{{Cite web|url=https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/george-bundy-smith-2/|title=George Bundy Smith|website=Historical Society of the New York Courts|language=en-US|access-date=February 17, 2020}}

|New York Appellate Division, First Department (1987–1992)

|New York

|retired

|Karla Smith{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/karla-smith-set-to-be-sworn-in-as-first-black-montgomery-district-court-judge/2012/08/26/7d834f78-eaff-11e1-9ddc-340d5efb1e9c_story.html|title=Karla Smith set to be sworn in as first black female Montgomery District Court judge (2012-08-26)|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en-US}}

|Montgomery District Court (2012–2015) Montgomery County Circuit Court (2015– )

|Maryland

|active

|Lavenski Smith{{Cite web|url=http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/smithbio.htm|title=Lavenski R. Smith: Biography|website=U.S. Department of Justice: Office of Legal Policyr|access-date=January 17, 2019|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011121235633/http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/smithbio.htm|archive-date=November 21, 2001}}

|Arkansas Supreme Court (1999–2000); United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (2002– )

|Arkansas

|active

|Lori K. Smith

|Washington Court of Appeals (2018– )

|Washington

|active

|Lynne H. Smith or Lynne M Hobbs{{Cite web |title=Judge Lynne M. Hobbs - Professional Background & Legal Expertise {{!}} Trellis.Law |url=https://trellis.law/judge/lynne.m.hobbs |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=trellis.law}}

|Los Angeles County Superior Court (2012– )

|California

|active

|Micah W. J. Smith{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761366|title=Smith, Micah William Janso|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=2023-11-29|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the District of Hawaii (2024– )

|Hawaii

|active

|Otis M. Smith{{Cite web|url=http://www.micourthistory.org/justices/otis-smith/|title=Otis Smith|website=Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US}}

|Michigan Supreme Court (1961–1966)

|Michigan

|deceased

|Rodney Smith{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394676|title=Smith, Rodney|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=August 26, 2021|language=en-US}}

|Miami-Dade County Court (2008–2012); Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida (2012–2019); United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (2019– )

|Florida

|active

|Doris Smith-Ribner{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/almID/1202431374991/SmithRibner-Retiring-From-Commonwealth-Court/?slreturn=20200023144445|title=Smith-Ribner Retiring From Commonwealth Court (2009-06-11)|website=Law.com|language=en-US}}

|Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court (1987–2009)

|Pennsylvania

|retired

|Julie S. Sneed{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761526|title=Sneed, Julie Simone|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=September 17, 2024|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida (2015– )

|Florida

|active

|Joe Somers{{Cite web|url=https://www.news-gazette.com/news/tom-s-mailbag-aug/article_48209eff-8793-515b-9640-9777fce9db5d.html|title=Tom's Mailbag, Aug. 21, 2015|last=Kacich|first=Tom|website=The News-Gazette|language=en|access-date=January 25, 2020}}

|Champaign County Court (elec. 1961)

|Illinois

|deceased

|Theodore O. Spaulding{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/12/archives/theodore-o-spaulding.html|title=Theodore O. Spaulding|date=September 12, 1974|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 17, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

|Pennsylvania Superior Court (appt. 1966)

|Pennsylvania

|deceased

|James R. Spencer{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/spencer-james-randolph|title=Spencer, James R.|website=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=January 21, 2020|language=en-US}}

|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (1986–2017)

|Virginia

|retired

|Vaino Spencer{{Cite web|url=http://www.metnews.com/articles/2007/spen082707.htm|title=Vaino Spencer to Retire as Presiding Justice|website=www.metnews.com|access-date=January 15, 2020}}

|California Second Appellate District (1980–2007)

|California

|deceased

|Erica Standfield Brandon{{Cite web|url=https://www.wfdd.org/story/standfield-brandon-first-african-american-judge-represent-rockingham-county|title=Standfield Brandon First African American Judge To Represent Rockingham County|date=July 1, 2019|website=88.5 WFDD|language=en|access-date=January 24, 2020}}

|North Carolina 17A Judicial District (2019– )

|North Carolina

|active

|Booker T. Stephens{{Cite web |title=Congressional Record, Volume 165 Issue 70 (Tuesday, April 30, 2019) |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2019-04-30/html/CREC-2019-04-30-pt1-PgE505-2.htm |access-date=2022-03-02 |website=www.govinfo.gov}}

|Eighth Judicial Circuit, McDowell County (c. 1985–2019)

|West Virginia

|retired

|William H. Stephens{{Cite web|url=https://www.marinij.com/opinion/20160528/marin-ij-editorial-lichtblau-stands-out-in-a-talented-field-for-marin-county-judge|title=Marin IJ Editorial: Lichtblau stands out in a talented field for Marin County judge|date=May 27, 2016|website=Marin Independent Journal|language=en-US|access-date=January 15, 2020}}