George Edward Chalmers Hayes (July 1, 1894 – December 20, 1968) was a Washington, D.C., lawyer who defended Annie Lee Moss on March 11, 1954.

In 1955 he became the first African American to serve on the District of Columbia Public Utilities Commission.

He taught at Howard University School of Law starting in 1924 while he maintained a private practice in the District of Columbia.

[2] In 1954 with Spottswood William Robinson III, he was the lead counsel on Bolling v. Sharpe, the companion case to Brown v. Board of Education.

Hayes argued that denying African American students the liberty to attend non-segregated schools violated due process.