Biography:

Attorney.  Born– April 29, 1922, Birmingham. Parents– Hugo Lafayette and Josephine Patterson (Foster) Black. Married– Graham Hobson, June 12, 1947. Children– Three. Education– University of Alabama, A.B., 1946; Yale University, LL.B., 1949. Admitted to practice before the bar in Alabama and Florida and before the U. S. Supreme Court. Partner in the firm of Kelly, Black, Black, Wright and Earle in Miami, Fla., 1962-2013.  Member of the American Bar Association, the American College of Trial Lawyers, and other legal associations; U.S.Supreme Court Historical Society and the Eleventh Circuit Court Historical Society; life member of the American Law Institute.  Listed in Best Lawyers in America for twenty years. Died July 22, 2013.

Source:

Who’s Who in America online; Obituary, July 24, 2013.

Publication(s):

Florida Evidentiary Foundations.  Michie Company, 1991.

My Father; a Remembrance. New York; Random House, 1975.

The Opening Statement. Practising Law Institute, 1984.