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List of first minority male lawyers and judges in Utah

Lawyers[edit]

• First African American male: Lawrence Marsh (1909)^[1]
• First Japanese American male: Yoshio Katayama (1946)^[2][3][4]
• First Native American males admitted to the Utah State Bar: Thomas G. Nelford and Larry Echo Hawk (1973)^[5][6]
• First Hispanic American males admitted to the Utah State Bar: Melvin H. Martinez (1975), Armando R. Ibañez (1975), and Michael N. Martinez (1976).^[6][7][8] Martinez was the first minority male to sit on the Utah State Bar Commission.^[9]
• First Tongan American male: Phil Uipi (1986)^[10][11]

State judges[edit]

• First Asian American male (Japanese descent): Raymond Uno (1959)^[12][13][14]
• First African American male: Tyrone Medley (1977) in 1984^[15][16][17]
• First Native American (Pomo) male: William A. Thorne Jr. (1977) in 1986^{[18][19][20][21]}
• First Hispanic American male: Andrew Valdez (1977) in 1993^[22][23][24]
• First Chinese American male: Michael Kwan in 1998^[25]
• First Native American (Pomo) male (Utah Court of Appeals): William A. Thorne Jr. (1977) in 2000^[18][19][20]
• First Greek American male (Utah Supreme Court): Deno Himonas in 2015^[26]

Federal judges[edit]

• First Hispanic American male (U.S. District Court for the District of Utah): Samuel Alba (1980)^[27][28][29]

Attorney General of Utah[edit]

• First Asian American male (Filipino descent): Sean Reyes (1997) in 2013^[30][31]

Assistant Attorney General[edit]

• First African American male: Henry Lee Adams^[32]

Firsts in local history[edit]

• Joseph Greco:^[33] First male lawyer of Italian descent in Carbon County, Utah

• Henry Lee Adams:^[32] First African American male to graduate from the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law (1959) [Salt Lake County, Utah]
• Robert Archuleta:^[18] First Latino American male to graduate from the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law (1974) [Salt Lake County, Utah]

• Keith N. Hamilton:^[34] First African American male to graduate from the J. Reuben Clark Law SchoolofBrigham Young University [Utah County, Utah]

See also[edit]

• List of first minority male lawyers and judges in the United States

Other topics of interest[edit]

• List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States
• List of first women lawyers and judges in Utah

References[edit]