The Reuben V. Anderson Center for Justice was established to honor the life and legacy of Justice Reuben V. Anderson, who was the first African-American graduate of the University Of Mississippi School Of Law and the first African-American county court judge, circuit court judge, and Mississippi Supreme Court Justice.
The Center seeks to address systemic issues of educational inequity and poverty in Mississippi through the same legal efforts that Justice Anderson pioneered almost 50 years ago as a prodigious civil rights litigator, following his matriculation at Ole Miss Law, as part of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. Such transformational work is indicative of Justice Anderson’s lifelong commitment to the social and economic uplift of Mississippi.
