Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, today hosted the renaming ceremony of the Memphis federal building for the late U.S. District Judge Odell Horton.
Congressman Cohen added Judge Horton’s name to the federal building as his first bill in Congress in 2007 and introduced and passed a bill to name the building exclusively for Judge Horton last year.
In his remarks at today’s ceremony, Congressman Cohen said in part:
“This is a good morning. It is the end of a past that needs to pass and the beginning of a future whose future is now, and has been, and will be…
“One of the first things I did as a Congressperson was to hyphenate this building. It became known as the Clifford Davis – Odell Horton Federal Office Building. I considered naming it for Judge Horton alone at the time but didn’t know if it was the right time…The right time is now.”
Other speakers at today’s event, at which the building’s new signage was unveiled, included the Honorable S. Thomas Anderson, Chief United States District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee; the Honorable Bernice B. Donald, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; and Mr. Odell Horton Jr., son of Judge Horton.
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