List of African-American speakers of U.S. state legislatures

The following is a list of African-American speakers of U.S. state legislatures.

List
Portrait Name Party State Legislature Term start Term end Notes
John R. Lynch Republican Mississippi Mississippi House of Representatives January 1872 January 1873 First African-American Speaker of any state legislature
Samuel J. Lee Republican South Carolina South Carolina House of Representatives 1872 1874
Robert B. Elliott Republican South Carolina South Carolina House of Representatives November 24, 1874 April 14, 1876
Isaac Shadd Republican Mississippi Mississippi House of Representatives 1874 1876
S. Howard Woodson Democratic New Jersey New Jersey General Assembly 1974 1976 First African-American speaker of any state legislature in the United States since Reconstruction
K. Leroy Irvis Democratic Pennsylvania Pennsylvania House of Representatives May 23, 1977 November 30, 1978
January 4, 1983 November 30, 1988
Willie Brown Democratic California California State Assembly December 2, 1980 June 5, 1995
Dan Blue Democratic North Carolina North Carolina House of Representatives 1991 1995
Peter Groff Democratic Colorado Colorado Senate January 2008 May 2009
Karen Bass Democratic California California State Assembly May 13, 2008 March 1, 2010 First African American woman in U.S. history to serve as Speaker of any state legislature
Terrance Carroll Democratic Colorado Colorado House of Representatives 2009 2011
Sheila Oliver Democratic New Jersey New Jersey General Assembly January 12, 2010 January 14, 2014
T. W. Shannon Republican Oklahoma Oklahoma House of Representatives January 8, 2013 February 10, 2014
Carl Heastie Democratic New York New York State Assembly February 3, 2015 incumbent
Jason Frierson Democratic Nevada Nevada Assembly February 6, 2017 incumbent
Aaron D. Ford Democratic Nevada Nevada Senate February 6, 2017 December 4, 2018
Kelvin Atkinson Democratic Nevada Nevada Senate December 4, 2018 incumbent
Adrienne A. Jones Democratic Maryland Maryland House of Delegates May 1, 2019 incumbent

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