Margaret A. Burnham (born December 28, 1944)[1] is an American lawyer, University Distinguished Professor of Law at the Northeastern University School of Law, founder of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, and co-founder of the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive.
[3] She is a Senate-confirmed nominee to be a member of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.
[5] In 1977, she became the first female African-American judge in Massachusetts, serving as an Associate Justice of the Boston Municipal Court until 1982.
[1] In 2008, she was one of the lawyers in a landmark federal lawsuit against Franklin County, Mississippi for their law-enforcement agents' involvement in the 1964 Ku Klux Klan kidnapping, torture and killing of two 19-year-olds, Henry Dee and Charles Eddie Moore.
[6] On June 11, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Burnham to be a member of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.