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Wade Hampton McCree Jr. (July 3, 1920 – August 30, 1987) was an American legal scholar and judge. He was the first African American appointed as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the second African-American United States Solicitor General in the history of the United States.
Sep 18, 2023 · Wade H. McCree, Jr. 36th Solicitor General, 1977 - 1981. Wade Hampton McCree, Jr., was born on July 3, 1920, in Des Moines, Iowa, the second of four children. His father was a pharmacist and became a federal narcotics inspector, a job which took the McCree family to Hawaii, Chicago, and Boston.
Sep 1, 1987 · Wade H. McCree Jr., a former Solicitor General under President Carter and a former Federal judge, died Sunday night at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
Wade McCree was the first African-American to be appointed a circuit judge in Michigan. When President Kennedy appointed him to be a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, he was only the second African-American ever to be appointed a United States District Judge; President Kennedy had appointed James ...
From Wade McCree's first days on the Wayne County Circuit Court bench through his service on the Sixth Circuit Court of Ap peals, he possessed a great sense of compassion, and uniformly sought within the law to protect individuals and minorities against more pow erful interests.
Wade McCree's formal judicial career ended with his appointment as Solicitor General of the United States in 1977. However, no other lawyer has an opportunity to participate in the development of law, particularly constitutional law, equal to that of the Solicitor General.
The Hon. Wade H. McCree (Ret.) served as a judge for the Third Circuit Court in Michigan. McCree was appointed to the bench by former Governor Jennifer Granholm on June 25, 2004, filling a vacancy created by the retirement of the HOn.
