Keith, Damon J. 1922-2019
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Name (Latin)
Keith, Damon J. 1922-2019
Other forms of name
Keith, Damon J. (Damon Jerome), 1922-
Date of birth
1922-07-04
Date of death
2019-04-28
Place of birth
Detroit (Mich.)
Associated country
United States
Associate group
United States. Court of Appeals (6th Circuit)
United States. Court of Appeals (6th Circuit) (1977)
United States. District Court (Michigan : Eastern District)
United States. District Court (Michigan : Eastern District) (1967 - 1967)
Occupation
Judges
African American judges
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Damon Jerome
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Washington Post website, viewed April 30, 2019(Damon J. Keith, one of the most prominent African American judges on the federal bench, who upheld civil rights and civil liberties in influential rulings that included a 1971 decision barring the Nixon administration from conducting warrantless domestic wiretaps, died April 28, [2019] at his home in Detroit. He was 96)
- Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Summer 1984:p. 469 (Judge Damon J. Keith; Circuit Judge, US Circuit Ct. Appeals for 6th Circ.; LLM, Wayne State Univ, 1956; LLB, Howard Univ. Sch. Law, 1949)
- History of the Sixth Circuit, 1977:p. 151 (Damon Jerome Keith; b. July 4, 1999 in Detroit, Mich.)
- Hammer, Paul J. Crusader for justice, 2014:dust jacket (Damon J. Keith was born in Detroit, Michigan on July 4, 1922; in 1967 President Lydon Johnson appointed Keith to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan; he was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth circuit in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter)