TimesUnion: Nation’s oldest federal judge dies at age 104
ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press
Updated 04:10 a.m., Wednesday, January 25, 2012
FILE – In this June. 4, 2007, file photo U.S. Federal District Judge Wesley Brown is shown in Wichita, Kan. Brown, the nation’s oldest sitting federal judge, died Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, according to his law clerk at age 104. Brown was appointed as a federal district judge in 1962 by then-President John F. Kennedy. (The Hutchinson News, Travis Morisse / AP)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — As the nation’s oldest sitting federal judge in history, U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown allowed himself few concessions to his advancing age as he insisted on presiding over significant and often complex cases right up until his death at 104.
Brown died Monday night at the Wichita assisted living center where he lived, his law clerk, Nanette Turner Kalcik, said Tuesday.
During his long tenure, the senior judge in Wichita repeatedly tried to explain why he had not yet fully retired from the federal bench.