History

The Harvard Black Law Students Association (HBLSA) has existed since 1967. When Bishop C. Holifield was a student at Harvard Law School in 1967 at the apex of the civil rights movement, the fledgling organization he had founded—HBLSA—had just two members: himself and co-founder Reginald E. Gilliam. Nearly 60 years later, BLSA has a membership of around 150 students. Below is the incomplete, yet ongoing history of president from 1967 to the present.

2026 – 2027Landon Coles ’27
2025 – 2026Bianca Williams-Alonzo ’26
2024 – 2025Sean Wynn ’25
2023 – 2024Ariel Talbert ’24
2022 – 2023Dara J. Ferguson ’23
2021 – 2022Mariah K. Watson ’22
2020 – 2021Chinelo Okonkwo ’21
2019 – 2020Malikah Williams ’20
2018 – 2019Lauren Williams ’19
2017 – 2018Jazzmin Carr ’18
2016 – 2017Kristin Turner ’17
2015 – 2016Leland Shelton ’16
2014 – 2015McKenzie Morris ’15
2013 – 2014Everson Ladson ’14
2012 – 2013Patrick Ragen ’13
2011 – 2012Whitney (Fogle) Lewis ’12
2010 – 2011Shaylyn Cochran ’11
2009 – 2010Dominique Winters ’10
2008 – 2009Bridgette Hylton ’09
2007 – 2008Kelley Nduom ’08
2006 – 2007John Mathews II ’07
2005 – 2006Delisle Warden ’06 and Mandy Price ’06
2004 – 2005Kenitra Fewell ’05
2003 – 2004Yohannes Tsehai
2002 – 2003Inez S. Canada ’03
2000 – 2001Staci Patterson ’01
1996 – 1997April Savoy ’97
1995 – 1996Patience Singleton ’96
1994 – 1995Robert James ’95
1993 – 1994Linda Dunn ’94
1992 – 1993Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. ’94
1991 – 1992Charisse Carney-Nunes ’92
1990 – 1991Julie Ferguson (Queen) ’91
1989 – 1990Tynia Richard ’90
1988 – 1989Robert Wilkins ’89
1987 – 1988Verna Williams ’88
1986 – 1987Millicent Hodge ’87
1982 – 1983Muhammad I. Kenyatta ’84*
1980 – 1981Penny F. Marshall ’81
1979 – 1980Earl T. Richardson
1978 – 1979Sylvester Turner ’80*
1976 – 1977Theodore R. Laster ’77*
1975 – 1976Loretta Argrett ’76
1967 – 1968Bishop Holifield ’69 and Reginald E. Gilliam, Jr.*

*Deceased

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