Joseph W. Hatchett became the first African-American elected to the highest court of a state since Reconstruction when Governor Reuben Askew appointed him to the Florida Supreme Court in 1975. He continued to serve on that court after a successful statewide election in 1976. Joseph Woodrow Hatchett was born on September 17, 1932 in Clearwater, […]
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