Hugh B. Scott (1949 – February 19, 2021) was a magistrate judge of United States District Court for the Western District of New York.

At age 32, Scott was elected to the Buffalo City Court.

He was re-elected to another 10-year term before leaving the position to become the first African American to sit on the federal bench in the Western District of New York.

[3] Scott was born in 1949 in Amherst, New York, and he received his B.A.

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