by Joe Webster
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2This tribute is based on Judge Webster’s book, The Making and Measure of a Judge: Biography of the Honorable Sammie Chess, Jr. (Chapel Hill Press, 2017.) All page numbers reference Continue Reading »
by Sarah A.L. Merriam
Fall/Winter 2018 | Volume 102 Number 3As an attorney practicing law in, and then a magistrate judge serving on the bench of, the District of Connecticut, I have had the good fortune to learn from many Continue Reading »
by Richard Gergel
Summer 2019 | Volume 103 Number 2Sergeant Isaac Woodard had just completed a three-year tour in a segregated unit of the United States Army. He boarded a Greyhound bus in Augusta, Ga., that would take him Continue Reading »
by Johnnie B. Rawlinson
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished January 2015 In 1964, Judge Addeliar D. (“Dell”) Guy III became the first African-American to practice law in the state of Nevada. Eleven years later, he was appointed as Continue Reading »
by J. Michelle Childs
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished December 2014 When you call the name of the Honorable Matthew J. Perry, Jr., everyone reminisces about their cherished memories of this legal and judicial luminary who had a Continue Reading »
by Donald Molloy
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished November 2014 Judge Paul Hatfield was an extraordinary judge, a man possessed of humility and courage. He was born and raised in a “blue-collar” family and he never forgot Continue Reading »
by Terry Fox
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished August 2014 If I had to select a word to describe one of my all-time favorite and most influential mentors, fearless is my word of choice. Richard Brooke Jackson, Continue Reading »
by Michael Daly Hawkins
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished July 2014 Born to German immigrants, Charles Andrew Muecke, known throughout his adult life as “Carl,” was educated in New York City’s public schools” and grew up with English Continue Reading »
by Paul W. Grimm
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished March 2014 In 1984, a series of state-chartered savings and loan associations failed as a result of embezzlement and poor management, leaving the quasi-public non-profit organization chartered by the Continue Reading »
by Richard C. Wesley
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished February 2014 I first met Justice David Boehm in 1976 when I was a young associate at a firm in upstate New York. At the time, I was assisting Continue Reading »
