WASHINGTON, June 30 -- The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts issued the following news: The federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida will be named in honor of the late Judge Joseph W. Hatchett, a trailblazing jurist who was among the first African Americans appointed to the federal bench in the South. The naming ceremony for the Joseph Woodrow Hatchett U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building will be held on June 30. "Judge Hatchett was a role model for both the bench and the bar, a patr  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The General Services Administration issued the following news: When Joseph Woodrow Hatchett took the Florida Bar Exam in 1959, he could not stay in the hotel where the test was being administered because of Jim Crow laws still in effect. Nearly 63 years later, lawmakers passed a 2022 law clearing the way for GSA to display Justice Hatchett's name on the U.S. Courthouse Annex in Tallahassee, Florida. Born in 1932 during segregation in Clearwater, Florida, to a mother wh  more