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Judge Frank Minis Johnson Jr. made landmark civil rights rulings from this courtroom that helped end segregation and disenfranchisement of African Americans in the South. In the words of journalist and historian Bill Moyers, Judge Johnson "altered forever the face of the South." Johnson was a United States district judge and United States Circuit Judge serving 1955 to 1999 on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The 1930's Federal building along with the annex built in 2000 are now the Frank M. Johnson Jr. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse
in Montgomery.