Poole, Cecil Francis, 1914-1997
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Cecil Francis Poole (July 25, 1914 – November 12, 1997) was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and a United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. He was the first African American to serve as a United States Attorney (outside of the United States Virgin Islands), the first African American to serve as a Judge of the Northern District of California and the second African American to serve as a Judge of the Ninth Circuit.
Archival Resources
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| referencedIn | Catalogue II of the Regional Oral History Office, 1980-1997 | Bancroft Library | |
| referencedIn | News and Information Services (University of Michigan) photograph series D (faculty and staff portraits), 1946-2006, 1950-1990 | Bentley Historical Library , University of Michigan | |
| creatorOf | Poole, Cecil F., 1914-1997. Civil rights, law, and the federal courts : the life of Cecil Poole, 1914-1917 / Cecil F. Poole ; with an introduction by William K. Coblentz ; interviews conducted by Carole Hicke in 1993. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1997. | UC Berkeley Libraries | |
| referencedIn | Henry C. Wahl Correspondence, 1948-1970 | Bancroft Library |
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| referencedIn | Oral history with Arthur L. Alarcon, California State Government Oral Histories | California State Archives |
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Birth 1914-07-25
Death 1997-11-12
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