Passing of retired Associate Judge Michael C. Brown

A reader advised FWIW that former Cook County Associate Judge Michael C. Brown passed away on April 9.

Judge Brown was assigned to both the Criminal Division and the Child Protection Division of the Circuit Court before retiring in 2013. He was a member of the "Harlan 8," one of eight Black judges that sat on the Cook County bench at the same time from a single Chicago public high school. It is believed that no other school in the country has produced that many Black judges sitting on the same court at the same time.

Brown was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. Tributes to Judge Brown are posted on the Maywood Wheaton Alumni Chapter Kappa Alpha Psi Facebook and North Central Province Kappa Alpha Psi Instagram pages.