Judge Thelton Henderson
Subtitle: breaking new ground
By: by Richard B. Kuhns
Publisher: Twelve Tables Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9781946074003
Subjects: African American judges; Biography; African American lawyers
Description: "Judge Thelton Henderson, Senior Judge of the Federal Circuit for Northern California, began his legal career with the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department in 1962. He was the first African American Justice Department attorney to work in the South, where he became an important liasion between the Justice Department and civil rights leaders. Later, Judge Henderson engaged in private practice, worked as a legal services attorney, and became an Assistant Dean at Stanford Law School, where he established one of the first successful law school minority admissions programs in the country. President Carter appointed him to the federal bench in 1980, and during his tenure Judge Henderson has issued a number of notable and sometimes controversial decisions.  Judge Henderson has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the American Bar Association's Thurgood Marshall award, the Bernard Witkin Medal from the California Bar Association, and the Anti-Defamation League's Pearlstein Civil Rights Award"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Thelton Henderson and the process of judicial decision making --; title: Path to the bench --; title: Judge Thelton Henderson --; title: Dolphins, Vietnam veterans, and Johnny Spain --; title: Institutional reform litigation and the limits of judicial power : California prisons and an East Palo Alto school district --; title: Judge Henderson's judicial activism and his judicial restraint : two examples (with two Ninth Circuit reversals and two Supreme Court vindications) ---- Coda.