The first-ever openly gay Supreme Court of California justice, Associate Justice Martin Jenkins, is not only the first openly LGBTQ justice on the high court, he's also only the third Black man ever to serve on it.
Jenkins grew up in San Francisco the son of a nurse and a janitor. He was a pro football player briefly after college, before being convinced by a coach and a college dean that he'd be a great lawyer.
In his mid-20s, after serving in the Alameda County District Attorney's office, he prosecuted police misconduct, Ku Klux Klan cross-burnings, and other racial violence in states across the country for the U.S.