Jan20
A lifetime of firsts comes to an end
By Michael D. Sorkin And Robert Patrick
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Judge Theodore “Ted” McMillian, who grew up in a era of racism and then broke the color barrier with a list of “firsts” – first African-American to become a state prosecutor in Missouri, first to become a state judge and first to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals here – died Wednesday (Jan. 18, 2006).
Fifty years after putting on a judge’s robe, he was still writing opinions from his office at the federal courthouse downtown. He would have turned 87 on Jan. 28. (more…)
