Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning said that Ogletree had a “monumental impact” on Harvard Law SchoolCharles 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.