Read the paragraph.
Thurgood Marshall was born and raised in Baltimore,
Maryland. He attended Howard University, where he
studied law. He served for years as influential legal
counsel to the NAACP (National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People), acting as a champion
of civil rights for African Americans. He is famous for
winning the 1954 case Brown V. The Board of Education
of Topeka, in which it was ruled that racial segregation in
schools was illegal. Marshall became the first African
American to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. His
remarkable achievements as a lawyer, as a Supreme
Court justice, and as a human being were nothing short
of extraordinary

As used in the passage, the word "influential" has a(n)
________connotation

A. Ambiguous
B. Favorable
C. Foreboding
D. Awkward