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Article: WILLIAM DAVIS BREAKS COLOR BARRIER IN SUPERIOR COURT

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November 3, 1994
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THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. COURTS Also ran B9, Valparaiso edition.

William E. Davis did not get to be a judge by taking no for an answer. The 46-year-old Gary lawyer was appointed Oct. 21 to be Lake Superior Court judge in East Chicago, the first black to hold a civil division judgeship in the county's history.

Seven years earlier, Davis was among nine well-known black attorneys - among them Hamilton Carmouche, now Gary city attorney; Bernard A. Carter, now county prosecutor; and Robert Rucker, now Indiana Appellate Court judge - applying for another judgeship.

They all wanted to replace Judge James C. Kimbrough, the county's first black judge, ...

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