Henry Ossian Flipper

Henry Ossian Flipper, engineer, the first black graduate of West Point,

Wallace B. Jefferson

Jefferson has three times made Texas judicial history. In 2001, Governor Rick Perry appointed him the first African American Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and then again in 2004 he was appointed the first African American Chief Justice. In November 2002, Jefferson also became, along with Justice Dale Wainwright, one of the first two African Americans elected to the Court.