Word: higginbotham
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Higginbotham's accomplishments as a lawyerearned him a special place in history, Ogletreesaid. "His great qualities as a judge werereflected in the fact that, along with ThurgoodMarshall, he was at the top of Lyndon Johnson'slist for the first African-American appointment tothe U.S. Supreme Court," he said...
Washington Post columnist Juan Williams saidHigginbotham's concern for the current impeachmentproceedings affected his entire demeanor. Williamssaid Higginbotham told him that children inpoverty were far more important to our nation thanimpeachment...
Williams called Higginbotham a landmark figurein 20th-century black America...
Ellen V. Holloman, a third-year law student andcourse assistant in Higginbotham's Af-Am class,called the judge inspiring...
Mark E. McIntosh '99, who worked as a researchassistant for Higginbotham and described himselfas a good friend of the judge, called Higginbotham"the best example of somebody devoting time whenmost other people don't think it's important...