Word: higginbotham
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There will be a memorial service held today for Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, public service professor of jurisprudence at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) who died...
...Higginbotham, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil honor, will be remembered for his work in championing civil rights...
...LEON HIGGINBOTHAM earned a national reputation as lawyer, jurist, teacher, scholar and activist. His achievements are especially meaningful to me, a friend of 40 years, because Leon spoke out strongly on racial issues. His admonishments to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are well known, but few are aware he appointed more minority clerks than any other judge...
...bench, he defied racial stereotypes. When officials of a white union defending a job-discrimination case claimed a black civil rights advocate could not objectively preside over it, Higginbotham issued an opinion condemning the subconscious but widely held view that only white judges could decide racial issues fairly...
DIED. A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM JR., 70, esteemed federal judge and scholar; of complications from several strokes; in Boston. Higginbotham, a civil rights advocate who called himself a "survivor of segregation," was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom--the nation's highest civilian honor--in 1995 when he retired from the bench (see Eulogy, below...