Law
| Name | Original Chapter | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. A. Birch, Jr. | Epsilon | First African-American to serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court | |
| Johnnie Cochran | Upsilon | defense attorney, best known for his role in the legal defense during the O. J. Simpson murder case | |
| Earl B. Dickerson | Beta | a prominent African American attorney, community activist and business executive who successfully argued before the U. S. Supreme Court in Hansberry v. Lee | |
| Robert Morton Duncan | Zeta | First African-American to serve as a Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court | |
| Andrew L. Carter, Jr. | Iota Delta | District Court Judge - United States District Court for the Southern District of New York - Appointed by President Barack Obama | |
| George Edward Chalmer Hayes | Lambda Xi | civil rights attorney | |
| Wade Henderson | Washington (DC) Alumni | attorney and President/CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights | |
| Donald L. Hollowell | Beta Lambda | civil rights attorney, attorney for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
| Wade H. McCree | Alpha Delta | Wade H. McCree Jr. was the first African American appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the second African American Solicitor General in the history of the United States. | |
| William Robert Ming | Iota | civil rights pioneer, attorney, law professor and best known as one of the architects of the legal strategy leading to the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, working on the litigation team for that case and on a number of the important cases leading to Brown, including Shelley v. Kraemer, Sweatt v. Painter and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents | |
| Donald Gaines Murray | Nu Tau | central figure in Murray v. Pearson (1935), which ruled that the University of Maryland School of Law policy of racial segregation was unconstitutional. | |
| James Benton Parsons | Alpha Mu | First African-American to serve as a United States Federal District Judge | |
| Percy Sutton | New York (NY) Alumni | attorney and civil rights activist, attorney for Malcolm X |
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