Harold Baron Jackson Jr. (December 28, 1939 – February 14, 2016) was an American lawyer and judge from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Earlier, he served as president of the Milwaukee School Board and was also the first African American to hold that office.
[1] After high school, he was also invited to try out for the St. Louis Hawks, survived the final cuts, and made the roster, but his father convinced him to finish his education instead.
[2] In December 1973, Jackson was appointed a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Milwaukee County, by Governor Patrick Lucey.
[6] He resigned from the court in 1986, taking a job as senior counsel for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.
For several years during the 1990s, while serving with the Sewerage District, he was also appointed a special master to oversee the implementation of the consent decree on overcrowding in Milwaukee County jail.