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Charles V. Bush, first Black U.S. Supreme Court Judge

Charles V. Bush, Graduate of Howard University who became the first African American Judge to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court. He was also one of the first three African-American Cadets to attend the U.S. Air Force Academy and the first African American to graduate from there.

He competed on an examination, with 3400 other candidates, for Washington, D.C.'s one nomination to the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA). He placed No. 2 on the exam. Was and academic in Russian language.

He graduated from USAFA with a Bachelor of Science. Bush received his Masters of Arts degree in International Relations from Georgetown University, in June 1964, and was inducted into the Georgetown chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society. Upon leaving the Air Force in 1970, he attended Harvard Business School, was co-chair of the African-American Student Union and was inducted into the Century Club in his second year. Bush received his Masters in Business Administration in Finance, in June 1972.

art work by

Gil Elvgren