Few reporters have noted what is perhaps the most lasting legacy of Sen. Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.), now retired: the unusually large number of family members, former aides, and even neighbors he's managed to appoint to federal judicial offices during the past two decades.

• Author: Threadgill, Susan
• Position: Who's Who - Brief Article

Few reporters have noted what is perhaps the most lasting legacy of Sen. Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.), now retired: The unusually large number of family members, former aides, and even neighbors he's managed to appoint to federal judicial offices during the past two decades. Four members of the South Carolina District Court owe their jobs to Thurmond, including former aides Terry Wooten, Henry Herlong, and Dennis Shedd--recently promoted to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals--as well as Joseph Anderson, who hails from Strom's hometown of Edgefield. Shedd has some company: He joins two other former Thurmond aides now sitting on the Fourth Circuit, William Wilkins and Emory Sneeden, plus one Clyde Hamilton, another Edgefield native and, like Shedd, a former...