By CHRISTOPHER DOWELL
The Exponent Telegram
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University will be holding a public memorial service for Justice Franklin D. Cleckley at 2 p.m. Sept. 24 at the Lyell B Clay Concert Theatre.
According to university officials, Cleckley was the first African-American faculty member at West Virginia University College of Law, the first full-time African-American professor at West Virginia University and the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
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