What is Damon Keith?
[[File:Damon Keith Circuit Judge.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Keith in the 1980s]] '''Damon Jerome Keith''' (July 4, 1922 – April 28, 2019) was an [[Americans|American]] judge. He was a Senior Judge for the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit]].<ref name=damonk>{{cite web |url=http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/files/UP001582.pdf |title=Damon J. Keith Collection |publisher=Wayne State University |format=[[PDF]] |access-date=May 16, 2010 |archive-date=August 18, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818191622/http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/files/UP001582.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> He served as Judge on the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit]] from 1977 until his [[retirement]] in 1995. He was nominated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Jimmy Carter]]. Keith was born in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]]. He studied at [[Wayne State University]], at [[Howard University]] and at [[West Virginia State University]]. Keith married Rachel Boone in 1953. They had three daughters. Boone died in 2007. Keith died on April 28, 2019 at his home in Detroit, at the age of 96.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wxyz.com/news/judge-damon-j-keith-dies-at-age-96-family-confirms|publisher=WXYZ|title=Judge Damon J. Keith dies at age 96|date=April 28, 2019|access-date=April 28, 2019}}</ref> The cause was problems from [[leukemia]] and [[heart disease]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/damon-j-keith-trailblazing-black-jurist-who-upheld-civil-rights-dies-at-96/2019/04/29/2379bd10-6a27-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html|title=Damon J. Keith, Trailblazing Black Jurist Who Upheld Civil Rights, Dies at 96|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=April 30, 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * [http://reuther.wayne.edu/node/2678 Damon Keith Papers at the Walter P. Reuther Library] * ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20021015132817/http://pacer.ca6.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=02a0291p.06 Detroit Free Press v. As