[1] During his service with the Eastern District of Louisiana, Wright was an important leader during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis.

[3] Wright was nominated by President John F. Kennedy on February 2, 1962, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated by Judge E. Barrett Prettyman.

[1] His service terminated on August 6, 1988, due to his death in the Westmoreland Hills neighborhood of Bethesda, Maryland.

[1] Justice William J. Brennan Jr. wrote a memoriam for Judge Wright in the Harvard Law Review.

Circuit helped modernize landlord-tenant jurisprudence by incorporating consumer protection principles long accepted in contract law.