Posted by: Barbara Spangle (bspangle@colby.edu) on Mon, April 02, 2012, 3:47 p.m.

Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson, the first African-American to sit on the Texas Supreme Court and the first to serve as that Court’s Chief Justice, became the seventh recipient of the Morton A. Brody Distinguished Judicial Service Award. In his convocation address, he continued with the theme from the panel discussion on the process of electing judges and the role he played as the president of the Conference of Chief Justices.

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