u.s. president who was also president of the harvard law review
The Class of 1984 included Loretta Lynch, who would later become the first African-American woman to be Attorney General of the United States. In 1990, Barack Obama was elected as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama, who graduated from HLS in 1991, would later represent Illinois in the U.S Senate, and in 2008 would become the 44th President of the United States, and the first African-American president.