List of Kappa Alpha Psi members

The Sample Gates of Indiana University (IU). IU was the site for the founding of Kappa Alpha Psi in 1911

The following is a list of notable members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. (commonly referred to as Kappas or Nupes). These members are recognized as leaders in the arts, athletics, business, civil rights, education, government, and science. Kappa Alpha Psi also prides itself in that it has never bestowed honorary membership. Kappa Alpha Psi was founded on the campus of Indiana University in 1911. The fraternity has more than 105,000 members with 721 undergraduate and alumni chapters in every state of the United States, and international chapters in the United Kingdom, Germany, Korea, Japan, the Caribbean, Saint Thomas, Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands and South Africa. 2

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Template:FratMemberStart |- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard" | class="fn" | D. Thomas Averett | style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Norristown (PA) Alumni | class="note" | Activist, former Director of North City Congress (youngest to hold the position in an organization advocating for senior citizens) | style="text-align:center;" | |- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard" | class="fn" | A. A. Birch, Jr. | style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Epsilon | class="note" | First African American to serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court | style="text-align:center;" | |- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard" | class="fn" | Johnnie Cochran | style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Upsilon | class="note" | defense attorney, best known for his role in the legal defense during the O. J. Simpson murder case | style="text-align:center;" | |- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard" | class="fn" | Earl B. Dickerson | style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Beta | class="note" | prominent African-American attorney, community activist and business executive who successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in Hansberry v. Lee | style="text-align:center;" | |- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard" | class="fn" | Robert Morton Duncan | style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Zeta | class="note" | First African-American to serve as a Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court | style="text-align:center;" | |- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard" | class="fn" | Andrew L. Carter, Jr. | style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Iota Delta | class="note" | District Court Judge - United States District Court for the Southern District of New York - Appointed by President Barack Obama | style="text-align:center;" | |- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard" | class="fn" | George Edward Chalmer Hayes | style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Lambda Xi | class="note" | civil rights attorney | style="text-align:center;" | |- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard" | class="fn" | Richard Erwin | style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Alpha Epsilon | class="note" | First African American to be elected to a statewide office in North Carolina. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed Erwin as the first black federal judge in North Carolina. | style="text-align:center;" | |- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard" | class="fn" | Wade Henderson | style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Washington (DC) Alumni | class="note" | attorney and President/CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights | style="text-align:center;" | |- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard" | class="fn" | Donald L. Hollowell | style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Beta Lambda | class="note" | civil rights attorney, attorney for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | style="text-align:center;" | |- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard" | class="fn" | Wade H. McCree | style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Alpha Delta | class="note" | Wade H. McCree Jr. was the first African American appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the second African-American Solicitor General in the history of the United States. | style="text-align:center;" | |- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard" | class="fn" | William Robert Ming | style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Iota | class="note" | civil rights pioneer, attorney, law professor and best known as one of the architects of the legal strategy leading to the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, working on the litigation team for that case and on a number of the important cases leading to Brown, including Shelley v. Kraemer, Sweatt v. Painter and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents | style="text-align:center;" | |- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard" | class="fn" | Donald Gaines Murray | style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Nu Tau | class="note" | central figure in Murray v. Pearson (1935), which ruled that the University of Maryland School of Law policy of racial segregation was unconstitutional. | style="text-align:center;" | |- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard" | class="fn" | James Benton Parsons | style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Alpha Mu | class="note" | First African American to serve as a United States Federal District Judge | style="text-align:center;" | |- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard" | class="fn" | Eugene K. Pettis | style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Zeta Phi | class="note" | First African American to serve as president of the Florida Bar | style="text-align:center;" | |- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard" | class="fn" | Percy Sutton | style="text-align:center;" class="org" | New York (NY) Alumni | class="note" | attorney and civil rights activist, attorney for Malcolm X | style="text-align:center;" | Template:FratMemberEnd

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