Justice Thurgood Marshall
(Jul 2, 1908 – Jan 24, 1993)

Occupation: Attorney, US Supreme Court Justice.
Education: Lincoln University with honors (cum laude) Bachelor of Arts in Humanities, Howard University School of Law.
Interred: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia
Lodge affiliation: Member,  Coal Creek Lodge #88, Tulsa, Oklahoma PHA

Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer and Prince Hall Freemason. born on July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Md. He was a graduate of Lincoln University in 1930 and 1947. He was admitted to bar in 1933 and practiced at Baltimore, 1933-37, and afterwards in New York City. He has been special counsel for the National Association for Advancement of Colored People since 1938, and has won a number of important decisions before the U.S. supreme court. In 1951 he visited Korea to make investigation of court martial cases involving black soldiers. He has been director and counselor of the Prince Hall Grand Master's Conference and is a 33° AASR Prince Hall.

Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education, a decision that desegregated public schools.

He served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit after being appointed by President John F. Kennedy and then served as the Solicitor General after being appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. President Johnson nominated him to the United States Supreme Court in 1967.