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Black History
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• First African-American woman to moderate a Presidential debate: Carole Simpson (second debate of 1992 campaign)
• First African-American Major League Baseball manager to reach (and win) the World Series: Cito Gaston (Toronto Blue Jays) 1992 World Series
1993
• First African-American woman appointed U.S. Secretary of Energy: Hazel R. O'Leary
• First African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature: Toni Morrison
• First African-American woman named Poet Laureate of the United States: Rita Dove; also the youngest person named to that position
• First African American ap- pointed Surgeon General of the United States: Joycelyn Elders
• First African American ap- pointed Director of the National Drug Control Policy: Lee P. Brown
• First African-American United States Secretary of Commerce: Ron Brown
• First African American to serve as home plate umpire for World Se- ries game: Charlie Williams for Game 4 of the 1993 World Series
• First African American to be in- ducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry: Charley Pride
1994
• First African-American woman director of a major-studio movie: Darnell Martin (Columbia Pictures' I Like It Like That)
• First African American to win the United States Amateur Champi- onship: Tiger Woods
1995
• First African-American in- ductee to the National Radio Hall of Fame: Hal Jackson
• First African-American Ser- geant Major of the Army: Gene C. McKinney
• First African-American Miss Universe: Chelsi Smith
1996
• First African-American U.S. Navy four-star admiral: J. Paul Rea- son
1997
• First African American to win a men's major golf championship: Tiger Woods (The Masters)
• First African-American model to appear on the cover of Sports Il- lustrated Swimsuit Edition: Tyra Banks
• First African-American UFC champion: Maurice Smith
• First African-American actor to star in the lead role in a comic-book adaptation movie (Spawn): Michael Jai White
• First African-American Direc- tor of the National Park Service:
Robert Stanton
1998
• First African American ap- pointed U. S. Secretary of Labor: Alexis Herman
• First African-American woman rear admiral in the U. S. Navy: Lil- lian Fishburne
• First African-American Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard: Vincent W. Patton III
• First African American to play in the Presidents Cup: Tiger Woods 1999
• First African American to be awarded the International Grand- master title in chess: Maurice Ashley • First African-American Ser- geant Major of the Marine Corps: Al- ford L. McMichael
• First African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company: Franklin Raines of Fannie Mae
• First African-American woman university president: Shirley Ann Jackson at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
21st century
2000s
2000
• First African American nomi- nated for Vice President of the United States by a Federal Election Commission-recognized and feder- ally funded political party: Ezola B. Foster
• First African American to be in- ducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame: Charley Pride
2001
• First African-American Secre- tary of State: Colin Powell
• First African-American presi- dent of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: The Most Rev- erend Wilton Daniel Gregory
• First African-American presi- dent of the Unitarian Universalist Association: Rev. William G. Sink- ford
ices: Captain Vernice Armour, USMC
appointed to the United States Sen- ate by a state governor: Roland Bur- ris
• First African-American woman combat pilot in the United States Air Force: Major Shawna Rochelle Kim- brell
2009
• First African-American First Lady of the United States: Michelle Obama
• First African-American chair of the Republican National Committee: Michael Steele
• First African-American United States Attorney General: Eric Holder • First African-American woman United States Ambassador to the United Nations: Susan Rice
• First African-American United States Trade Representative: Ron Kirk
• First African-American woman Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: Lisa P. Jackson • First African-American White House Social Secretary: Desirée Rogers
• First African American to ap- pear by himself on a circulating U.S. coin: Duke Ellington (District of Co- lumbia quarter).
• First African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for History: An- nette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family • First African-American Admin- istrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Charles F. Bolden Jr.
• First African-American woman rabbi: Alysa Stanton
• First African-American woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company: Ur- sula Burns, Xerox Corporation.
• First African-American doubles team to be named year-end world champion by the International Ten- nis Federation: Serena and Venus Williams
2010s
2010
• First African-American to win Stanley Cup: Dustin Byfuglien with Chicago Blackhawks.
2011
• First African-American Direc- tor of the Federal Bureau of Prisons: Charles E. Samuels Jr.
2012
• First African-American U.S. Senator from the former Confeder- acy since Reconstruction: Tim Scott • First African-American presi- dent of the Academy of Motion Pic- ture Arts and Sciences: Cheryl Boone Isaacs
• First African-American United States Secretary of Homeland Secu- rity: Jeh Johnson[222]
2014
• First African-American woman four-star admiral: Michelle J. Howard
• First African-American woman Republican to be elected to the United States Congress: Mia Love, elected in Utah
• First African-American senator to be elected in the South since Re- construction: Tim Scott, elected in South Carolina
• First African-American woman to be nominated for Best Director by the Golden Globe Awards: Ava Du- Vernay for Selma
2015
• First African-American woman Attorney General of the United States: Loretta Lynch
• First African-American to lead a major intelligence agency: Vincent R. Stewart, Defense Intelligence Agency
• First African-American to be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame: Wendell Scott
• First African-American com- missioner of a major North Ameri- can sports league: Jeffrey Orridge, Canadian Football League
• First African-American elected as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church: Bishop Michael Curry
• First African-American woman American Bar Association president: Paulette Brown
2016
• First African-American presi- dent of a major broadcast TV net- work: Channing Dungey
• First African-American Librar- ian of Congress: Dr. Carla Hayden 2018
• First African-American artist commissioned for US president por- trait to be displayed in the Smith- sonian: Kehinde Wiley
• First African-American artist commissioned for US first-lady por- trait to be displayed in the Smith- sonian: Amy Sherald
• First African-American presi- dent of the American Psychiatric As- sociation: Altha Stewart
• First African-American woman to be major party nominee for state governor: Stacey Abrams
• First African-American super- intendent of the United States Mili- tary Academy: Darryl A. Williams
• First African-American woman U. S. Marine Corps general officer: Lorna Mahlock
• First African American to be ranked #1 in tennis: Venus Williams • First African American to be named year-end world champion by the International Tennis Federation: Serena Williams
• First African-American Arena Football League head coach to win ArenaBowl: Darren Arbet (San Jose SaberCats), ArenaBowl XVI
• First African-American general manager in the National Football League: Ozzie Newsome (Baltimore Ravens)
• First African-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress: Halle Berry
2003
• First African American to win a Career Grand Slam in tennis: Serena Williams (See also: Althea Gibson, 1956; Arthur Ashe, 1968)
• First African-American Ameri- can Bar Association president: Den- nis Archer
2004
• First African-American to win Broadway theater's Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play: Phylicia Rashād
• First African-American in- ducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame: Charlie Sifford
2005
• First African-American woman Secretary of State: Condoleezza Rice • First African-American woman U. S. Coast Guard aviator: Jeanine Menze
2006
• First African American to com- mand a United States Marine Corps division: Major General Walter E. Gaskin
• First African American to reach the peak of Mount Everest: Sophia Danenberg
• First African-American woman
• First African-American presi- to receive Dharma transmission in dent of an Ivy League university: Zen Buddhism: Merle Kodo Boyd Ruth J. Simmons at Brown Univer- 2007
sity • First known African-American • First African-American woman woman to reach the North Pole: Bar- to win the ASCAP Pop Music Song- bara Hillary
writer of the Year award: Beyoncé • First African-American White Knowles House Chief Usher: Stephen Rochon • First African-American woman 2008
National Security Advisor: Con- • First African American to be
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elected President of the United States: Barack Obama
• First African-American Com- batant Commander of United States Central Command: Lloyd Austin
• First African American elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC): Fred Luter
• First African American to direct an animated film with a budget in excess of $100 million: Peter Ram- sey (Rise of the Guardians)
2013
doleezza Rice
• First African-American billion- aire: Robert L. Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television (see also 2002)
• First African-American woman billionaire: Sheila Johnson
2002
• First African American to be- come majority owner of a U.S. major sports league team: Robert L. John- son (Charlotte Bobcats, NBA)
• First African-American woman combat pilot in the U.S. Armed Serv-
nominated as a major-party U.S. presidential candidate: Barack Obama, Democratic Party
• First African American elected President of the United States: Barack Obama
• First African American to ref- eree a Super Bowl game: Mike Carey (Super Bowl XLII)
• First African-American woman elected Speaker of a state House of Representatives: California Rep. Karen Bass
• First African American to be
First African American to be re-
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