Speaker Biography

Rohulamin Quander, a native Washingtonian, is a retired Senior Administrative Law Judge for the District of Columbia, and a member of the Quander Family whose history traces to the 1670s. Their legacy includes enslavement at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Plantation, where he periodically serves as an advisor. He often serves as a guest lecturer on African American History.

He holds two degrees from Howard University (BA 1966, JD 1969), and in 1985 founded the Quander Historical and Educational Society, Inc., a 501 (c)(3), to document, preserve, protect, and share the family’s legendary history as an educational tool.

He is a founding member of the League of Descendants of the Enslaved at Mount Vernon, whose Mission is to gather, tell, share, and preserve the many stories of the formerly enslaved ancestors and free people of color who rendered service to George Washington and his family at the Mount Vernon Plantation.

He is also a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and is the author of many documents on the fraternity’s history and contributions. Further, he is the author of four books, and a licensed and certified DC tour guide.  His years of service include addressing human and civil rights inequities among the Dalit (Untouchable) population of India, his mother’s ancestral homeland.

Married to Carmen Torruella Quander, an internationally acclaimed artist, they have three adult children and one grandchild and reside in Washington, D.C.