# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/a-leon-higginbotham-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:39:48.618Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/a-leon-higginbotham-jr"
name: "A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr."
slug: "a-leon-higginbotham-jr"
description: "Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham Jr. was an American civil rights advocate, historian, presidential adviser, and federal court judge. From 1990 to 1991, he served as chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Originally nominated to the bench by President Kennedy in 1963, Higginbotham was the seventh African-American Article III judge appointed in the United States, and the first African-American United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He was elevated to the Third Circuit in 1977, serving as a federal judge for nearly 30 years in all. In 1995, President Bill Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Higginbotham used the name \"Leon\" informally."
tagline: "American judge (1928-1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Higginbothamandclinton_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1928-02-25"
deathDate: "1998-12-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           23.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.400288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "أ. ليون هيغينبوثمان جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ا. ليون هيجينبوثمان جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Leon_Higginbotham_Jr."
    title: "A. Leon Higginbotham Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Leon_Higginbotham_Jr."
    title: "A. Leon Higginbotham Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Leon_Higginbotham_Jr."
    title: "A. Leon Higginbotham Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4648101"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump