Feb. 3, 2023
Day 3 William Hastie
William Hastie
The first African American federal and appellate judge, William Hastie had a distinguished private law career before being appointed to the United States District Court for the Virgin Islands by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937. He then worked for two years as a federal judge before becoming a law educator at Howard University School of Law, where he taught the soon-to-be-famous Thurgood Marshall.
