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Table 2a: Black Officials Holding Elected Statewide Offices, 2002

STATE

OFFICIAL

TITLE

EXPIRATION OF TERM

California

Janice R. Brown

Associate Justice, State Supreme Court

12/31/2010

Colorado

Joe Rogers*

Lieutenant Governor

12/31/2002

Colorado

Raymond Dean Jones*

Judge, State Court of Appeals

4/30/2003

Connecticut

Denise L. Nappier

Treasurer

12/31/2006

Florida

Peggy A. Quince

Justice, State Supreme Court

12/31/2006

Florida

Leander J. Shaw, Jr.*

Justice, State Supreme Court

12/31/2002

Georgia

Thurbert E. Baker

Attorney General

12/31/2006

Georgia

David L. Burgess

Public Service Commissioner

12/31/2006

Georgia

Michael Thurmond

Labor Commissioner

12/31/2006

Georgia

Robert Benham

Chief Justice, State Supreme Court

12/31/2008

Georgia

Leah Ward Sears

Justice, State Supreme Court

12/31/2004

Georgia

M. Yvette Miller

Judge, State Court of Appeals

12/31/2006

Georgia

Herbert E. Phipps

Judge, State Court of Appeals

12/31/2006

Illinois

Jesse C. White, Jr.

Secretary of State

12/31/2006

Illinois

Charles E. Freeman

Justice, State Supreme Court

12/31/2010

Indiana

Robert D. Rucker, Jr.

Justice, State Supreme Court

12/31/2012

Louisiana

Bernette Joshua Johnson

Justice, State Supreme Court

12/31/2010

Maryland

Robert M. Bell

Chief Judge, Court of Appeals

12/31/2012

Michigan

Robert P. Young, Jr.

Associate Justice, State Supreme Court

12/31/2010

Michigan

Leon H. Atchison^*

Member, Bd of Governors - Wayne State University

12/31/2002

Michigan

Joel Ferguson^

Member, Bd of Trustees - Michigan State University

12/31/2004

Michigan

S. Martin Taylor^

Member, Bd of Regents - University of Michigan

12/31/2004

Michigan

Jacqueline Washington^

Member, Bd of Governors - Wayne State University

12/31/2008

Michigan

Katherine White^

Member, Bd of Regents - University of Michigan

12/31/2006

Minnesota

Alan Page

Associate Justice, State Supreme Court

12/31/2004

Missouri

Ronnie L. White

Judge, State Supreme Court

12/31/2008

New York

H. Carl McCall*

Comptroller

12/31/2002

North Carolina

Ralph Campbell, Jr.

Auditor

12/31/2004

North Carolina

G. K. Butterfield, Jr.*

Associate Justice, State Supreme Court

12/31/2002

North Carolina

Loretta C. Biggs*

Judge, Court of Appeals

12/31/2002

North Carolina

Wanda Bryant

Judge, Court of Appeals

12/31/2004

North Carolina

Patricia Timmons-Goodson

Judge, Court of Appeals

12/31/2006

North Carolina

James A. Wynn

Judge, Court of Appeals

12/31/2004

Ohio

J. Kenneth Blackwell

Secretary of State

12/31/2006

Pennsylvania

Justin M. Johnson

Judge, Superior Court

12/31/2005

Pennsylvania

Doris A. Smith

Judge, Commonwealth Court

12/31/2007

Tennessee

Adolpho A. Birch, Jr.

Chief Justice, State Supreme Court

8/31/2006

Texas

Michael L. Williams

Chair, Railroad Commission

12/31/2008

Texas

Wallace Jefferson

Justice, State Supreme Court

12/31/2006

Virgin Islands

Charles W. Turnbull

Governor

12/31/2006

Virgin Islands

Gerard Luz James*

Lieutenant Governor

12/31/2002

Washington

Charles Z. Smith*

Justice, State Supreme Court

12/31/2002

 

*Out of office after expiration of term
^Members of governing boards of major state universities in Michigan are elected statewide

Data compiled by Alfred Baltimore, Jr., Roster Clerk, and tabulated by Richard Hart, Database Administrator
Source: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington, DC), Black Elected Officials Roster

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