A Tribute to Chief Judge Tuttle

It is entirely fitting that this new and lively journal of the law should be paying tribute to Judge Elbert P. Tuttle. For though he has relinquished his position as Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit because of the statutory age limit he continues to serve that court and to stand for what is young and vibrant and progressive in his State, in the South and throughout the country. I am honored to have been invited to add my few words in praise of a great Judge. Judge Tuttle came to the federal bench in 1954, at a time when the storm clouds of racial turmoil were festering on the horizon.

Since the day he assumed office, the Fifth Circuit has been in the very eye of the storm. Along with his brethren on the Court, Judge Tuttle has de- voted unending labor to the mountainous task of assuring the peaceful, orderly fulfillment under law of the promise of racial equality as swiftly as the processes of justice would permit.