The state’s first African- American Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court continues to make history days after his sudden passing at a relatively young age. Leroy Hassell is the first person to lie in state at the State Capitol rotunda since Speaker A.L. Philpott in 1991 … and the first African-American ever to receive that honor. Virginia Public Radio’s Tommie McNeil has more from the Capitol.
Remembering Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leroy Hassell
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