List of first minority male lawyers and judges in Missouri

This is a list of the first minority male lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Missouri. 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 graduate from law school or become a political figure.

Firsts in Missouri's history

Lawyers

First African American male: John H. Johnson (1871) First African American male to argue a case before the Missouri Supreme Court: Walter M. Farmer (1889) in 1893 First African American male lawyer from Missouri to be admitted to the American Bar Association: Scovel Richardson (c. 1953) First deaf male: James "Jamie" Frost (1999)

State judges

First African American male: Walter M. Farmer (1889) during the 1890s First African American male (elected): Crittenden Clark in 1922 First African American male (Missouri Court of Appeals): Theodore McMillian (1949) in 1972 First African American male (Missouri Supreme Court): Ronnie L. White (1983) in 1995 First openly gay male: Lawrence E. Mooney:Upon Mooney's appointment to the Missouri Court of Appeals in 1998 First blind/Jewish male (Missouri Supreme Court): Richard B. Teitelman (1973) in 2002 First African American male (Missouri Supreme Court; Chief Justice): Ronnie L. White (1983) in 2003 First quadriplegic male: Jason Sengheiser in 2017

Federal judges First African American male (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit): Theodore McMillian (1949) in 1978 First African American male (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri): Clyde S. Cahill Jr. (1951) in 1980

Missouri Bar Association

First African American male president: Charlie J. Harris, Jr.

Firsts in local history John H. Kelly:Jackson Advocate. (Jackson, MS) 22 Jan. 1955, p. 5. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/sn79000083/1955-01-22/ed-1/. First African American male lawyer in Buchanan County and St. Joseph Counties, Missouri I. J. Ringolsky: First Jewish male to serve as the President of the Kansas City Bar Association (1940) [Cass, Clay, Jackson and Platte Counties, Missouri] Charles Boles: First African American male to serve as justice of the peace in Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri (1890) Fernando J. Gaitan Jr.: First African American male corporate lawyer in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri (upon working for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company) Filiberto (Filbert) Muñoz: First Latino American male lawyer in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri Lewis W. Clymer: First African American male to serve as a Judge of the Jackson County Circuit Court (1970) Victor Rocha: First Mexican American male judge in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri (1984) Homer G. Phillips: First African American male lawyer in Pettis County, Missouri Noah W. Parden (c. 1890): First African American male lawyer in St. Clair County, Missouri Eleazer Block (1814): First Jewish male lawyer in the independent city of St. Louis, Missouri (1817) Crittenden Clark: First African American male to serve as the Justice of the Peace for St. Louis, Missouri (1922) William Sherwood Diuguid: First African American male magistrate in St. Louis, Missouri Scovel Richardson: Scovel Richardson: First African American male lawyer admitted to the St. Louis Bar Association (1953)

See also

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

Other topics of interest

List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States List of first women lawyers and judges in Missouri

References