
Thomas G. Sampson Jr., Co-Founder Of Georgia’s First Black-Owned Law Firm, Dies
by Daniel Johnson July 6, 2025 Sampson Jr. co-founded Georgia’s oldest Black-owned law firm Thomas Kennedy Sampson & Tompkins. Thomas G. Sampson Jr., the co-founder of Georgia’s oldest Black-owned law firm Thomas Kennedy Sampson & Tompkins, died on July 3, according to a press release from the City of Atlanta,