Barbara Charline Jordan was an American lawyer, educator and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction. 

She won a seat in the Texas Senate in 1966, becoming the first African-American state senator since 1883 and the first Black woman to serve in that legislative body. 

President Bill Clinton said that he had wanted to nominate Jordan for the United States Supreme Court, but Jordan’s health problems prevented him from nominating her.

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