List of first minority male lawyers and judges in West Virginia

This is a list of the first minority male lawyer(s) and judge(s) in West Virginia. It includes the year in which the men were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are men who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to obtain a law degree or become a political figure.

Firsts in state history
J. R. Clifford: First African American male lawyer in West Virginia (1887)

Lawyer

Judges
  • Leon P. Miller (c. 1922):[2][3][4][5] First African American male judge in West Virginia (1968)
  • Franklin Cleckley (1969):[6] First African American male appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Firsts in local history

Alphabetized by county name

McDowell County

Raleigh County
  • Donald L. Pitts:[9] First African American male to serve as the President of the Raleigh County Bar Association, West Virginia (1996)

See also

Other topics of interest

References
  1. "HR 22 Text". www.legis.state.wv.us. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  2. "The SPHINX | Summer 1980 | Volume 66 | Number 2 198006602". Issuu. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  3. Company, Johnson Publishing (1973-01-11). Jet. Johnson Publishing Company.
  4. Romero, Patricia W. (1969). In Black America, 1968: The Year of Awakening. Publishers Company.
  5. "Leon P. Miller". www.wvculture.org. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  6. EDITOR, Matt Harvey MANAGING. "Former W.Va. Supreme Court justice Frank Cleckley dies at age 77". WV News. Retrieved 2018-01-30.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  7. Trotter, Joe William; Jr, Professor of History Joe William Trotter (1990). Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06119-6.
  8. Jr, J. Clay Smith (1999). Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-1685-1.
  9. "Bishop Donald L. Pitts « Altmeyer Obituary Archive". obituaryarchive.altmeyer.com. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
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