Hannibal B. Johnson

Hannibal B. Johnson, Esq., a graduate of Harvard Law School, is an attorney, author, consultant, and the current chair of the Commemoration Fund. Hannibal is also a board member and curator for Greenwood Rising.

Hannibal’s consulting work focuses primarily on diversity and inclusion, nonprofit leadership, and human relations issues. Johnson has also served as an adjunct professor at The University of Tulsa College of Law (legal writing; legal ethics), Oklahoma State University (leadership and group dynamics; business law [MBA Program]), and The University of Oklahoma (ethics; cultural diversity; race & reason; the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre; nonprofit leadership & management).

Johnson’s past leadership roles include stints as chair of the board of directors of The Community Leadership Association, Leadership Tulsa, the Metropolitan Tulsa Urban League, the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, the Foundation for Tulsa Schools, and the Rotary Club of Tulsa. Johnson is an alumnus of Leadership Tulsa, Leadership Oklahoma, and the “Connecting Communities” Fellowship Program in Richmond, Virginia. He served on the Oklahoma Advisory Council to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and presently serves on the 400 Years of African American History Commission and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission. He has been inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.