Roll Call: Black Members of Congress
Keith Ellison
Congressman Keith Ellison represented Minnesota's 5th Congressional District from 2007 to 2019 (110th-115th Congresses). Before Congress, Ellison was a lawyer and served as executive director of the Legal Rights Center in Minneapolis. Ellison served on the Financial...
Marcia L. Fudge
Congresswoman Marica Fudge represented Ohio's 11th District Congressional District from 2008 to 2021 (110th-116th Congresses). She was elected to the seat in a special election to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones. Before her...
Allen West
Congressman Allen West represented Florida's 22nd Congressional District from 2011 to 2013 (112th Congress). West, a Republican politician and retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, declared himself a defender of conservative values. He served on the House Armed...
Alma Adams
Congresswoman Alma Adams has represented the 12th Congressional District of North Carolina since 2014 (113th Congress-Present). After winning a special election, Adams was sworn in as the 100th woman elected to the 113th Congress. Adams currently serves on the...
William Ballard Hurd
Congressman William Hurd represented Texas' 23rd Congressional District from 2015 to 2021 (114th-116th Congresses). Between 2019 and 2021, Hurd was the only African American Republican in the House of Representatives. In Congress, Hurd served on the House Permanent...
Lisa Blunt Rochester
Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester has served Delaware in the U.S. Senate since 2025 (119th Congress-Present). Before joining the Senate, Rochester represented Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2017 to 2025 (115th-118th Congresses). In the Senate, Blunt...
Anthony Gregory Brown
Congressman Anthony Brown represented Maryland's 4th Congressional District from 2017 until 2023 when he retired to successfully run for Attorney General of Maryland (115th-117th Congresses). Brown served on the House Armed Services Committee, where he helped shape...
Kamala Devi Harris
Kamala Harris represented California in the U.S. Senate from 2017 until January 18, 2021 (115th-117th Congresses) when she resigned to become Vice President of the United States during the Biden Administration. Before serving in Congress, Harris was California's...
Brenda Jones
Congresswoman Brenda Jones represented Michigan’s 13th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives during a portion of the 115th Congress. On November 6, 2018, Jones won a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of...
Alfred Lawson Jr.
Congressman Alfred Lawson represented Florida's 5th Congressional District from 2017 through 2023 (115th-117th Congresses). Lawson served on the House Committee on Financial Services and the House Committee on Agriculture. Before Congress, Lawson served for 28 years...
Aston Donald McEachin
Congressman Donald McEachin represented Virginia's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2017 until his death on November 28, 2022 (115th-117th Congresses). During his first term in Congress, McEachin co-founded the United for Climate...
Valdez (Val) Demings
Congresswoman Val Demings represented Florida's 10th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023 (115th-117th Congresses). Demings served on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (Subcommittee on Intelligence...
Dwight Evans
Congressman Dwight Evans has represented Pennsylvania's 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2016 (114th Congress-Present) when he was elected to both the 114th and 115th Congresses in a special election. In Congress, Evans serves on...
Terri Sewell
Congresswoman Terri Sewell has represented the 7th District of Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives since January 3, 2011 (112th Congress-Present). She is one of the first women elected to Congress from Alabama and is the first Black woman to ever serve in the...
Bonnie Watson Coleman
Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman has represented New Jersey's 12th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015 (114th Congress-Present). She is the first African American woman to represent New Jersey in Congress. Before Congress, Watson...
Brenda L. Lawrence
Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence represented Michigan's 14th Congressional District from 2015 to 2023 (114th-117th Congresses). Lawrence served as the vice-chair of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. She also served on the Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and...
Hansen Clarke
Congressman Hansen Clarke represented Michigan's 13th Congressional District from 2011 to 2013 (113th Congress). Clarke served on the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in Congress. Before his election, Clarke served as...
Joyce Beatty
Congresswoman Joyce Beatty has represented Ohio's 3rd Congressional District since 2013 (113th Congress-Present). Beatty serves on the House Committee on Financial Services. She has introduced important legislation to end human trafficking, improve financial literacy,...
Karen Bass
Congresswoman Karen Bass represented California's 37th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 through her resignation in 2022 to serve as Mayor of Los Angeles (112th-117th Congresses). Bass served on the House Committee on Foreign...
Ludmya Bourdeau (Mia) Love
Congresswoman Mia Love represented Utah's 4th Congressional District from 2015 to 2019 (114th-115th Congresses). She was the first African American elected to Congress from Utah and the first African American woman elected to Congress as a Republican. Before coming to...