BY THE FLORIDA COURIER STAFF Joseph Hatchett, the first Black justice on the Florida Supreme Court, died April 30 at age 88. Appointed by Gov. Reubin Askew in 1975, he served until 1979 when President Jimmy Carter named him as a federal appeals court judge. In 1999, he left the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of […]

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