Constance Iona Slaughter-Harvey (born 1946) is an American jurist who in 1976 became the first black female judge in the state of Mississippi.
She met civil rights activist Medgar Evers while she was in college and his assassination in 1963 influenced Slaughter-Harvey to pursue a Juris Doctor degree.
Walter Crosby, Lewis Younger and R. O. Williams became the first African-Americans to wear what was then the Mississippi Highway Safety patrol uniform.
Slaughter-Harvey noted that the Mississippi Highway Patrol was the strong arm of the law for the Ku Klux Klan.
[5] She also served as a member of the Governor's Minority Advisory Committee and a Presidential Scholars Commissioner during the administration of President Jimmy Carter.