With his election in 1990, Barack H. Obama became the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review in its 103-year history. The Review is managed and edited by 78 student editors selected from Harvard's 1,600 law students. In its first 85 years, The Review has had three Black editors: Charles Houston, a civil rights attorney; William T. Coleman, Secretary of Transportation under President Gerald Ford; and William Hastie, a federal appeals judge.