This is a list of the first minority male lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Montana. It includes the year in which the men were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are men who achieved other distinctions, such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.

• First African American male: John D. Posten (1890)^[1][2][3][4]
• First Native American (Métis) male: Raymond Francis Gray (1946)^[5][6]

• First Native American male: Ira Left Hand, Sr.^[7]
• First Native American (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Montana): Jean A. Turnage in 1984^[8]
• First openly gay male: Shane Vannatta in 2019^[9][10]

• First African American male (U.S. Commissioner for the United States District Court of Montana): John D. Posten (1890) in 1893^[1][2][3][4]

• First openly gay male (president): Shane Vannatta in 2011^[9][10]

• James Weston Dorsey (1927):^{[1][2][11][12]} First black male to graduate from the University of Montana School of Law [Missoula County, Montana]

• List of first minority male lawyers and judges in the United States

• List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States
• List of first women lawyers and judges in Montana