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Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr.
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1966
Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr., Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Education
- College of the Holy CrossA.B., 1941
- Harvard Law SchoolLL.B., 1946
Career
U.S. Army sergeant, 1943-1945; Law clerk, Hon. Francis J.W. Ford, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 1946-1947; Private practice, Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, 1947-1948; Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Massachusetts, 1948-1950; Lecturer in federal jurisdiction and procedure, Boston College Law School, 1950-1951; Private practice, Boston, Massachusetts, 1951-1961; U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, 1961-1966; Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1982-1985
Biography
Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr. (June 20, 1920 – September 16, 1999) was an American jurist who served as a federal district judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1966 to 1999. He was best known for issuing the 1974 order in Morgan v. Hennigan which mandated that Boston schools be desegregated by means of busing.
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