Law Practice
Feb. 21, 2003
Black Robes
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Thelton Henderson recalls being a little taken aback at his introduction to Cecil Poole, the first black person to sit as a judge in the Northern District. It was in 1978, he says, and Henderson was about to be nominated for a seat on the court.




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