Justice James E.C. Perry, the Florida Supreme Court’s only sitting black male judge, announced his retirement Monday.
His retirement from the high court Dec. 30 marks the end of the career of a jurist who grew up under Jim Crow laws in North Carolina and who decided to become a lawyer on the day the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. At that time, he’d never met a lawyer, but wanted “to be an instrument of change, to make a difference,” according to a release from the Supreme Court.
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