Amos T. Hall

Amos T. Hall (October 2, 1896 – November 12, 1971) was an American judge and civil rights lawyer. He was the first African-American to be elected as a judge in Oklahoma.

Biography Hall was born in Bastrop, Louisiana. He went to schools there and graduated from Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi. He represented the Oklahoma Association of Negro Teachers in the 1948 equal pay suit, Freeman v. Oklahoma City School Board. He was appointed in 1969 and elected in 1970 to judgeships. He was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1993.