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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Courts - More on: "WICHITA, Kan. -- U.S. Senior District Judge Wesley Brown has died at age 104"
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, the NY Times has an obituary today written by A.G. Sulzberger. Some quotes:
Judge Wesley E. Brown, whose work ethic and a hale constitution kept him climbing the stairs to his fourth-floor courtroom past his 100th birthday, making him the oldest active federal judge in the nation’s history, died on Monday in Wichita, Kan. He was 104. * * *As his health declined in recent months, he reduced his caseload. But Judge Brown, who was the subject of a Page 1 profile in The New York Times in 2010, was still working from bed in recent weeks, telling colleagues he just wanted to get back to his courtroom.
“He was driven by his work,” said Mike Lahey, who was a longtime law clerk for the judge. “He loved it, and it was his reason for living at the end.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 26, 2012 10:38 AM
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