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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 25, 2022

The federal courthouse building located at 167 N. Main St. in Memphis was renamed for the late U.S. District Judge Odell Horton in a ceremony this week. The renaming, approved by the U.S. Congress last year, removes the name of Congressman Clifford Davis, who was known as a segregationist and Ku Klux Klan member. Horton was the first Black federal judge and the first Black assistant U.S. attorney in western Tennessee. U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, sponsored the legislation to remove the Davis name. The Commercial Appeal has more on the story.