[We have the following announcement from the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit and the Supreme Court Historical Society. DRE]
William B. Bryant served on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia beginning in 1965, when he was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, until his death in 2005. He was Chief Judge from 1977 to 1981. Prior to being appointed to the federal bench, Judge Bryant graduated at the top of his law school class at Howard University School of Law, after the war became one of the first black prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, and then became a prominent criminal defense lawyer. He litigated pro bono the landmark case of Mallory v. United States, in which the Supreme Court overturned a criminal conviction on the ground that the defendant’s confession was obtained unlawfully.
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