A Hall of Fame Career

Thelton E. Henderson

Berkeley Law Visiting Professor Thelton Henderson ’62 is one of 10 people named to this year’s California Hall of Fame class. The first Black lawyer in the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, he worked to protect voting rights in the South with Martin Luther King Jr. and others before taking leadership roles in public interest law and academia. Henderson spent 37 years as a federal judge and has won many awards for his vast civic service.