Colleague remembers longtime Charleston judge Richard Fields
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The first Black elected judicial official in the Southeast, Richard Fields, died on Friday, according to a colleague. A n...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The first Black elected judicial official in the Southeast, Richard Fields, died on Friday, according to a colleague. A native of Charleston, Fields was an alumnus of Burke High School. He earned his law degree at Howard University School of Law. After getting that degree, he became the first Black person since the early 1900s to open a law office in historic Charleston and the first ever to become a trial attorney. In 1969, he was selected as a municipal judge for the city of Charleston, according to the South Carolina African American History Calendar.