In January 1972, Merhige ruled that students in Henrico and Chesterfield counties in Virginia would have to be bused to the Richmond city schools in order to decrease the high percentage of black students in Richmond's schools. Black families moved into white urban neighborhoods in Richmond throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and by the 1970s white flight to suburbs in neighboring counties had left the Richmond city schools predominately black. Early in his long judicial career, Merhige ordered dozens of Virginia's public school systems to desegregate, and for a time was considered the most hated man in Richmond-under 24-hour protection by the United States Marshals Service and with weekly protests at his home, his mother-in-law's cottage on his property was burned to the ground, and his dog tied up and shot dead. Board of Education), segregation remained. Sterling Hutcheson retiring from the bench rather than enforce Brown v.
Notable cases Īlthough the first stage of Massive Resistance to desegregation of Virginia's schools was over (which even included United States District Judge C. His service terminated on June 8, 1998, due to his retirement. He was a member of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation from 1990 to 1998.
He assumed senior status on November 30, 1986. He was a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1980 to 1985. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 18, 1967, and received his commission on August 25, 1967. Johnson on July 17, 1967, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia vacated by Judge John D. Merhige was nominated by President Lyndon B. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Richmond School of Law from 1973 to 1976. He was a lecturer at the University of Virginia from 1968 to 1972. He was vice president and general counsel for the Crass Coca-Cola Bottling Company from 1952 to 1955. He taught law at the Smithdeal-Massey School of Law from 1945 to 1948. He entered private practice in Richmond, Virginia from 1945 to 1967. He served in the United States Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1945, flying many missions in Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers during World War II. He later received a Master of Laws from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1982. Education and career īorn February 5, 1919, in New York City, New York, Merhige attended High Point College in North Carolina and received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Richmond School of Law in 1942. (Febru– February 18, 2005) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia who was known for his rulings on desegregation in the 1970s.
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