Edwin Lucius Jefferson was a 1931 graduate of the University of Southern California Law School. He was the first African American judge west of the Mississippi when he was appointed to the L.A. Municipal Court in 1941, and the first African American Justice for the California 2nd Appellate Court of Appeals. Jefferson was a civic leader, who in 1943 served on a committee to improve the housing situation for minorities in Los Angeles. Pi Sigma Alpha (ΠΣΑ or PSA), the National Political Science Honor Society, is an honor society for college and university students of political science in the United States. The first chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha was founded in 1920 at the University of Texas at Austin. Portraits of members of the PI SIGMA ALPHA National Honorary Political Science Society, including Edwin L. Jefferson (top row, center) in the University of Southern California El Rodeo yearbook, page 420. Captions on page: PI SIGMA ALPHA / National Honorary Political Science. Joseph Dubin President, Faculty: Dr. O. W. E. Cook, Dr. J. Eugene Harley, Dr. Roy Malcolm. Honorary: Dr. Rufus B. von Kleinsmid, Dean Justin Miller, Alan Nicholas, Dr. Henry C. Niese, Prof. J. Pheffner. Active Members: Russell Behrens, Charles Cook, Joseph S. Dubin, George Henderson, Edwin L. Jefferson, Louise Mitchell, George Sample, Hynie Smith, Edwin Talmadge, Herman Teplesky, K. S. Vandergriff, Sidney Wiener, Charles Wright. [Portrait caption:] Behrens, Jefferson, Henderson, Mitchell, Smith, Talmadge.
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African American judges African American Greek letter societies Pi Sigma Alpha Jefferson, Edwin L. (Edwin Lucius), 1905-1989
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