Thurgood Marshall
Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. Before becoming a judge, Marshall was best known for his high success rate as an attorney who argued before the Supreme Court and for the landmark victory in Brown v. Board of Education, in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. Marshall served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, appointed to that role by President John F. Kennedy, and then served as Solicitor General, appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. In 1967, President Johnson nominated him to the United States Supreme Court.
