First African American Police Chief, Daryl K. Roberts
Colin Powell was the first African American to the The Joint Chief of Staffs.
There has not been an African American Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. The first African American Associate Justice was the Honorable Thurgood Marshall.
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The Boy Scouts of America will have had 12 Chief Scout Executives as of September 1, 2012. None are African American.
Chief Master Sergeant Fred Archer
Not female, but African-American, Lindsey R. Hardiman, 376th BW, was on the first list of Chiefs. There may have been others.
The First African American E-9 in the USAF.
Thomas N. Barnes (1973 to 1977).
Annie L. Grimes
Thurgood Marshall
President Obama, Commander in Chief