Biographer to share insights on influential NC judge Sammie Chess Jr. in Asheboro library talk

ASHEBORO – The trailblazing life of The Hon. Sammie Chess Jr. is the topic of the new biography, The Making and Measure of a Judge, by Joe L. Webster. 

Webster will talk about Chess’s life and contributions at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 5, at the Asheboro library.

Chess, of High Point, became North Carolina’s first African American superior court judge. He was active in the Civil Rights movement, and as an attorney, represented Asheboro residents arrested during sit-ins at Hops Bar-B-Que Restaurant in 1964.

Webster, a federal magistrate judge in the Middle District of North Carolina, will discuss Chess’s contributions to the Civil Rights struggle, the judiciary, and society in general.

The library is located at 201 Worth Street. For further information, call 336-318-6803.