Robert Emmitt Lillard

Biography

Robert Emmitt Lillard (March 23, 1907 – November 6, 1991) was an American civil rights activist, lawyer, judge, and politician from Nashville, Tennessee. He served on the Nashville City Council and Metropolitan Council (1951–1971), organized voter registration drives, aided the Nashville sit-in movement, and in 1978 became the first African American 1st circuit court judge in Davidson County.

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