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- Federal judge graduates from Duke Law School 40 years after rejection
Durham Herald-Sun May 18, 2016 A federal judge based in Durham, 62-year-old Joe Webster graduated Saturday from a master's degree program at Duke University School of Law -- 40 years after his application was rejected.
- Justice With Hope: Meet Federal Judge Joe Webster (49 min)
Will Michaels & Frank Stasio, The State of Things, June 20, 2016 When Joe Webster became an attorney, one of his first cases was a civil rights lawsuit he filed against his hometown of Madison, North Carolina. He successfully argued that it was wrong for the town to deny him, a black man, his own office space in a predominantly white neighborhood.
- The Making and Measure of a Judget - Biography of the Honorable Sammie Chess Jr.
By Joe L. Webster, Chapel Hill Press, February 2017, ISBN: 978-1-59715-153-5. The definitive biography of Sammie Chess, Jr., North Carolina’s first African American Superior Court Judge, by Judge Joe Webster. See also https://jhfc.duke.edu/event/the-making-and-measure-of-a-judge-the-honorable-sammie-chess-jr/