Retired Judge Harry A. Cole, the first black to serve on Maryland’s highest court and the first elected to the state Senate, died Feb. 14, 1999 at age 78. Judge Cole made history in 1954 when he ...
The friends of Maryland Court of Appeals Judge Harry A. Cole June 6 hailed the late jurist, the first Black to serve on the state’s appeals court and the first Black to be elected to the state senate.
HARRY A. COLE was a first-rate judge in both the trial courts of Baltimore City and the Court of Appeals — the state’s highest — in Annapolis. Yet it was as a trailblazer that Judge Cole, who died ...