Damon Keith

Damon Jerome Keith (born July 4, 1922) is a Senior Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Keith grew up in Detroit, where he graduated from Northwestern High School in 1939; Keith then moved on to West Virginia State College (B.A. 1943), Howard University School of Law (J.D. 1949), and Wayne State University Law School (L.L.M. 1956). Keith married Rachel Boone in 1953 and they had three daughters. Rachel died on January 4, 2007. In 1964, Keith was elected co-chair of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission with John Feikens, and was a key player in the tumultuous times following the Detroit race riots. In 1967, Senator Philip Hart suggested Keith to President Lyndon Johnson, who nominated Keith to his seat on...