Pryor, a Catholic Republican, served as editor-in-chief of the Tulane Law Review as a law student in Louisiana before clerking for Judge
John Minor Wisdom of the U.S.
The first of these,
John Minor Wisdom, was one of the very best jurists I have met here and abroad, be the measure his knowledge, dedication, or caring for the law and the large society law serves.
Champion of Civil Rights: Judge
John Minor Wisdom is a scholarly biography of unsung civil rights hero
John Minor Wisdom, who served on the U.S.
They included such staunch civil-fights liberals as
John Minor Wisdom, Frank M.
"The Constitution is both color blind and color conscious," Judge
John Minor Wisdom wrote in his majority opinion.
Such bluntness off the bench may explain why the former circuit chief judge and his circuit have not been given the respect of peers and jurists nationwide when compared to accolades for predecessors like Judges
John Minor Wisdom and Elbert Tuttle in the old Fifth Circuit.
Penny Collins Choate has been nominated for the American Bar Association Litigation Section's 2003
John Minor Wisdom Award.
and
John Minor Wisdom, senior judges on the United States Courts of Appeals for the Eleventh and Fifth Circuits, respectively, were great judges.
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge
John Minor Wisdom (like Wilkinson a descendent of a White League insurrectionist) acknowledges that the White League actively sought to establish white domination but contends that somehow "that was not the big issue .
John Minor Wisdom's fame as the Fifth Circuit's--and indeed, the entire federal judiciary's--foremost voice on behalf of civil rights rests predominantly on a trio of mid-1960s opinions concerning voting rights, the Ku Klux Klan, and school desegregation.
"Skelly should have been here,"
John Minor Wisdom whispered to the judge's widow, Helen Wright, at a 1993 White House ceremony.