Husband of Jeannine Marie Crowell - married in Miami FL on 16 Oct 1996
Son of Hugo Lafayette Black Jr and Bessie Graham Hobson Black
Brother of Elizabeth Black of Australia and Margaret Black of California
Grandson of Hugo Lafayette Black who was a US Senator from Alabama between 1926-1937 and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court between 1937-1971
Black graduated as valedictorian from Palmetto High School in Pinecrest, Florida in 1971. He attended Yale University, where he was his class president, and then graduated from Stanford Law School, where he was on the Stanford Law Review staff. Black served as a law clerk to Patrick Higginbotham of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Black was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1976 as a Democrat when he was 23 years old. He served one term (1976-1978).
Black worked at the law firm of Rosenfield, Mayer & Susman as a partner from 1984 until he joined the entertainment division of Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman & Silverman of Los Angeles in 2003. As an entertainment lawyer he represented screenwriters and actors, including Alex Hyde-White.
He returned to Miami to work at the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. He served as Assistant United States Attorney from 1995 to his death. As Assistant U.S. Attorney he mainly prosecuted white-collar fraud cases.
Black died unexpectedly at his home in Coconut Grove, Florida at the age of 54 from gastrointestinal bleeding.
Son of Hugo Lafayette Black Jr and Bessie Graham Hobson Black
Brother of Elizabeth Black of Australia and Margaret Black of California
Grandson of Hugo Lafayette Black who was a US Senator from Alabama between 1926-1937 and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court between 1937-1971
Black graduated as valedictorian from Palmetto High School in Pinecrest, Florida in 1971. He attended Yale University, where he was his class president, and then graduated from Stanford Law School, where he was on the Stanford Law Review staff. Black served as a law clerk to Patrick Higginbotham of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Black was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1976 as a Democrat when he was 23 years old. He served one term (1976-1978).
Black worked at the law firm of Rosenfield, Mayer & Susman as a partner from 1984 until he joined the entertainment division of Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman & Silverman of Los Angeles in 2003. As an entertainment lawyer he represented screenwriters and actors, including Alex Hyde-White.
He returned to Miami to work at the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. He served as Assistant United States Attorney from 1995 to his death. As Assistant U.S. Attorney he mainly prosecuted white-collar fraud cases.
Black died unexpectedly at his home in Coconut Grove, Florida at the age of 54 from gastrointestinal bleeding.
Husband of Jeannine Marie Crowell - married in Miami FL on 16 Oct 1996
Son of Hugo Lafayette Black Jr and Bessie Graham Hobson Black
Brother of Elizabeth Black of Australia and Margaret Black of California
Grandson of Hugo Lafayette Black who was a US Senator from Alabama between 1926-1937 and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court between 1937-1971
Black graduated as valedictorian from Palmetto High School in Pinecrest, Florida in 1971. He attended Yale University, where he was his class president, and then graduated from Stanford Law School, where he was on the Stanford Law Review staff. Black served as a law clerk to Patrick Higginbotham of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Black was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1976 as a Democrat when he was 23 years old. He served one term (1976-1978).
Black worked at the law firm of Rosenfield, Mayer & Susman as a partner from 1984 until he joined the entertainment division of Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman & Silverman of Los Angeles in 2003. As an entertainment lawyer he represented screenwriters and actors, including Alex Hyde-White.
He returned to Miami to work at the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. He served as Assistant United States Attorney from 1995 to his death. As Assistant U.S. Attorney he mainly prosecuted white-collar fraud cases.
Black died unexpectedly at his home in Coconut Grove, Florida at the age of 54 from gastrointestinal bleeding.
Son of Hugo Lafayette Black Jr and Bessie Graham Hobson Black
Brother of Elizabeth Black of Australia and Margaret Black of California
Grandson of Hugo Lafayette Black who was a US Senator from Alabama between 1926-1937 and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court between 1937-1971
Black graduated as valedictorian from Palmetto High School in Pinecrest, Florida in 1971. He attended Yale University, where he was his class president, and then graduated from Stanford Law School, where he was on the Stanford Law Review staff. Black served as a law clerk to Patrick Higginbotham of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Black was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1976 as a Democrat when he was 23 years old. He served one term (1976-1978).
Black worked at the law firm of Rosenfield, Mayer & Susman as a partner from 1984 until he joined the entertainment division of Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman & Silverman of Los Angeles in 2003. As an entertainment lawyer he represented screenwriters and actors, including Alex Hyde-White.
He returned to Miami to work at the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. He served as Assistant United States Attorney from 1995 to his death. As Assistant U.S. Attorney he mainly prosecuted white-collar fraud cases.
Black died unexpectedly at his home in Coconut Grove, Florida at the age of 54 from gastrointestinal bleeding.
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