Keith then moved on to West Virginia State College where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1943.

[4] At the suggestion of United States Senator Philip Hart, Keith was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 25, 1967, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan vacated by Judge Thomas Patrick Thornton.

[1] Keith was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on September 28, 1977, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated by Judge Wade H. McCree.

[2] The Supreme Court's landmark decision in United States v. U.S. District Court (1972) (also known as "the Keith case") contributed in 1978 to president Jimmy Carter signing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

[9] In Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft (2002), Keith, writing for a unanimous panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, found that absolute closure of deportation hearings in "special interest" cases was unconstitutional.

[11] Members of the press and public filed two of the cases challenging the Government's closure of removal proceedings.

[13] Former law clerks also include: Keith donated his personal papers to the Walter P. Reuther Library in 1994.

[2] His estate made a $100,000 bequest to a scholarship fund in his name at West Virginia State University.

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