Dan Dolan, chair of the Benjamin L. Crump College of Law’s advisory board, Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney, and David Armstrong, president of St. Thomas University.

The St. Thomas University College of Law is now the Benjamin L. Crump College of Law.

This is the first law school in the country named after a practicing Black attorney, according to the university. The only other law school in the country named for a Black person is named after Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.