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Proclamation recognizing and congratulating Judge Livingstone M. Johnson for receiving the 2006 Drum Major for Justice Award.
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WHEREAS, the Homer S. Brown Law Association held their Seventh Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Prayer Breakfast on January 16, 2006 at Mt. Ararat Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and The Honorable Livingstone Morris Johnson was the recipient of the Drum Major for Justice Award; and
WHEREAS, born December 27, 1927, Judge Livingstone obtained his elementary, middle and high school education, without ever having a Negro classmate. An active student, he was affectionately referred to as “Livy” by his friends and he enrolled in Howard University, before being called to active duty in 1949; and
WHEREAS, in 1951, he flew 58 combat missions over Korea, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross. Upon his return, he enrolled in the University of Michigan Law School, earning his degree in June 1957, then returning to Pittsburgh to work at his father's law firm, marrying LeeBrun Johnson, and fathering 5 children; and
WHEREAS, he served as the Assistant County Solicitor until October 1962, thereafter, serving for over 9 years in the Juvenile Section of the Family Division as a common pleas Judge, conducting 21,500 hearings and earning the Outstanding Juvenile Court Judge Award from the Allegheny County League of Women Voters. In 1985, he received the Juvenile Law Award from the ACBA Juvenile Law Committee and in 1995, for his work concerning equal treatment, he received the Susan B. Anthony Award from the Women's Bar Association. On December 28, 1997, Judge Johnson assumed a status as Senior Judge, upon designation of the Chief Justice of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and
WHEREAS, he belongs to St. Mark A.M.E. in Wilkinsburg, is a lifetime member of the NAACP, member of Omega Psi Phi, American Inns of Court, the Homer S. Brown Law Association, American Judicature Society, the Pennsylvania State Co...
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