Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham Jr. (February 25 1928 – December 14 1998) was a prominent African-American civil rights advocate author and federal appeals court judge. Higginbotham was the seventh African-American Article III judge appointed in the United States and the first African-American 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.
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birth date
1928-02-25
birth place
New Jersey, Ewing Township New Jersey
death date
1998-12-14
death place
Boston
office
Judge of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
order in office
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
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