Judge Ulysses Boykin, who served in both Oakland and Wayne Counties for over 30 years, has died, according to an Oakland County morgue.
Officials with the morgue say he died of natural causes.
Boykin is well-known for his work breaking barriers in law as a Black man. He was the first Black attorney to practice at the Detroit law firm Dickinson Wright. Before that, he was one of the founders of Harvard University’s Black Law Student Association…