Archie Elliott Jr.

Archie Elliott Jr. is an African-American retired judge and lawyer from Portsmouth, Virginia. He served as a judge in the Portsmouth General District Court from 1974 until 2006. He attended the predominantly black North Carolina Central University School of Law.

In 2004, Elliott believed himself to be due for a term as chief judge. Elliott remained suspended from the bench for nearly two years. Elliott issued apology letters to Whitlow and others. Police and deputies filled his courtroom on his last day and gave him a standing ovation. Their son, Archie Elliott III, was born on December 8, 1968. Elliott Jr. stayed in Portsmouth to pursue his legal career, and Elliott III moved with Dorothy to the Washington, D.C. area to be closer to Dorothy's side of the family. Elliott III spent most of his childhood with his mother in Forestville, Maryland, seeing his father once a month. He lived with his father in Portsmouth for the last two years of high school. On June 18, 1993, Archie Elliott III was shot and killed by police officers while handcuffed in police cruiser. Since then, Elliott has been engaged in activism related to his son's death.

Elliott is close friends with Johnny E. Morrison.