by Marsha C. Erb
Summer 2020, Storied Third Branch | ArchiveAbove: Beverley McLachlin, 17th Chief Justice of Canada (Photo by Roy Grogran, courtesy of the Supreme Court of Canada) Beverley McLachlin, widely regarded as one of the best legal minds Continue Reading »
by Jennifer L. Thurston
Spring 2020 | Volume 104 Number 1ABOVE: U.S. District Judge Lawrence O’Neill, right, with Senior U.S. District Judge Morrison England, both of the Eastern District of California. While Lawrence J. O’Neill was completing his 50th jury Continue Reading »
by Ann Claire Williams
Fall 2019 | Volume 103 Number 3Although she loved music, she could not sing. She was such a bad singer that, as a little girl growing up in New Haven, she was asked to leave the Continue Reading »
by Raul A. Zambrano
Spring 2018 | Volume 102 Number 1The names of courthouses are not something that the average person would notice. They include the directional and mundane and, occasionally, the name of an important person in the eyes Continue Reading »
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 »
