Armed with a law degree Joseph Woodrow Hatchett set up practice in Daytona Beach and 16 years later was named the first Black justice of the Florida Supreme Court, and later the first Black federal appellate judge in the former Confederacy.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Tallahassee federal courthouse named for Judge Joseph Woodrow Hatchett after partisan delay | James Call
After graduation from Florida A&M University in 1954, Judge Hatchett was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. He entered Howard University School of Law in 1956 and earned his LL.B. degree in 1959. Judge Hatchett was admitted to the Florida Bar in November 1959.
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