Fred C. Struckmeyer Jr.

Struckmeyer, Sr., who served one term on the Superior Court in Maricopa County from 1923 to 1925, then as code commissioner.

He went to work as a deputy Maricopa County attorney before serving in the United States Army during World War II where he was awarded the Silver Star Bronze Star Medal and a Purple Heart.

In the case, Struckmeyer ruled that the Arizona law permitting school boards to segregate pupils was unconstitutional, and the Phoenix Union High School District segregation of African-American students was illegal.

His decision was made a year before the Supreme Court of the United States decided Brown v. Board of Education.

[3][8] Judge Struckmeyer died in 1992 and was buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona in Phoenix.