Clifton Johnson

Biography

Clifton Earl Johnson (December 9, 1941 – June 25, 2009) was an American jurist who served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals from 1982 through 1996. Johnson, who was born in Williamston and graduated from North Carolina Central University and its law school, was the first African-American to serve as a North Carolina District Court judge and the first to serve as chief judge of a district (in Mecklenburg County). In 1978, he became the first African-American elected superior court judge in the state since Reconstruction.

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