A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham Jr. was a prominent AfricanAmerican civil rights advocate, author, and federal appeals court judge. Higginbotham was the seventh AfricanAmerican Article III judge appointed in the United States, and the first AfricanAmerican judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He served as Chief Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals from 1990 to 1991. He used the name Leon informally.
Higginbotham was born on February 25, 1928, in Ewing, a suburb of Trenton, New Jersey. His mother, Emma Lee Higginbotham, was a maid, and his father, Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham Sr., was a factory worker. Higginbotham was raised in a largely AfricanAmerican neighborhood, and attended a segregated grammar school.
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