Storied Third Branch

Icon of the Bench and Gridiron: Kim Hammond, Judge, Seventh Judicial Court, Florida

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Vol. 102 No. 1 (2018) | Forensic Fail

The 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 […]

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Retired Judge Sammie Chess, Jr., looks up at a painting of his portrait, a copy that hangs over the fireplace mantel at his home in Jamestown. The original painting is on display at the Guilford Country Courthouse in High Point.

A Giant Among Men: Sammie Chess, Jr.

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Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World Right

This 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 […]

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Pioneer Women: Ellen Bree Burns and Joan Glazer Margolis

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Vol. 102 No. 3 (2018) | Crowdsourcing and Data Analytics

As 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 […]

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Lion of Justice: Judge Damon Keith, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

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Vol. 101 No. 2 (2017) | Can science save justice?

Judge Damon J. Keith is a Senior Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Nominated by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, Judge Keith has served […]

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A Mentor to All: Addeliar D. (“Dell”) Guy III

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Select Articles (Pre-2015) | Volumes 1-98

Published 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 […]

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Passion for Justice: Matthew J. Perry, Jr.

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Published 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 […]

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He Was the Same Person in Court, at Home, or at the Racetrack: Paul Hatfield

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Published 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 […]

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A Mentor for Life: R. Brooke Jackson

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Published 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, […]

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A Conscience Steeled by the Face of Evil: Charles (“Carl”) Andrew Muecke

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Published 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 […]

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The Best Judge You Never Heard Of – Joseph H. H. Kaplan

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Published 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 […]

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