Senior U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice, whose rulings led to prison reforms in Texas and the desegregation of the state’s public schools, died Oct. 13 at the age of 89.

Then-President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Justice as a judge in the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, in 1968. In 1998, he became a senior judge and moved to Austin.

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