21st-century African-American lawyers

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.

Vice President of the United States from 2021 to 2025

lawyer and former First Lady of the United States (2009-2017)

American politician (born 1969)

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1991

American lawyer and jurist (born 1970)

American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author (born 1973)

Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015

United States Attorney General from 2009 to 2015

American politician (born 1963)

American attorney (born 1959)

American attorney and politician (born 1952)

Mayor of Chicago from 2019 to 2023

American businesswoman and a former government official

American politician and attorney

American attorney and advocate (born 1967)

American lawyer, social reformer and academic

former congressman from Harlem, New York

U.S. Representative from Texas

American politician and lawyer (born 1971)

American environmental advocate and civil rights activist

American politician (born 1965)

American television correspondent, model, Miss USA 2019 (1991–2022)

29th United States Senator from Massachusetts (Class 2)

American activist for children's rights (born 1939)

4th United States Secretary of Homeland Security (born 1957)

American politician and former NFL player (born 1983)

American politician

American attorney, politician (1954–2025)

American talk radio host and attorney (born 1952)

41st Mayor of San Francisco

American politician (born 1958)

American politician (born 1979)

American lawyer and District Attorney of New York County (born 1973)

American politician (born 1966)

American lawyer, rabbi, educator, and politician

American judge

American politician in Virginia (born 1972)

U.S. Representative from Virginia

U.S. Representative from Virginia (1961–2022)

American politician (born 1977)

American politician

American historian

American judge, Senate candidate (2022)

United States District Judge

American jurist

American football player and judge (born 1945)

American legal academic and writer

American politician

American basketball player and lawyer (1933–2020)

American politician

American lawyer

American lawyer and judge

Attorney General of Kentucky from 2020 to 2024

American lawyer

American judge

American attorney and activist

American politician and former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

American lawyer & pundit (1985-)

American lawyer (1907–2007)