Harold Whitmore

His story

Harold grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, the son of a schoolteacher and a Methodist minister. He watched his parents stand up for equal rights with courage and grace, and decided to spend his life on the rule of law.

He practiced law for fifteen years, then served twenty-eight years as a federal judge, the last eighteen on the court of appeals. He wrote more than a thousand opinions.

Retired from the bench, he explains what the big cases really mean.