Ogletree represented Anita Hill when she accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991.
Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree Jr., center, takes part in a panel discussion during the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Boston on Aug. 1, 2014. | Michael Dwyer/AP PhotoCAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a law professor and civil rights scholar with a distinguished career at Harvard Law School and whose list of clients ranged from Anita Hill to Tupac Shakur, died Friday after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 70.
Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning shared news of Ogletree’s death in a message to the campus community Friday. Ogletree represented Hill when she accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during the future U.S. Supreme Court justice’s Senate confirmation hearings in 1991.
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