Nation’s oldest federal judge, UMKC Law graduate, dies

With much sadness we report today on the loss of U.S.District Judge Wesley Brown, who died Monday night at age 104 in Wichita, KS.

Appointed as a federal district judge in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy, Brown was a graduate of the Kansas City School of Law, which is now the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law.

Even in the last month of his life, when his health began deteriorating such that he could no longer review cases at the court house, Brown [...]