William Glenn Terrell

William Glenn Terrell (July 24, 1878 – January 12, 1964) was a state legislator and justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 1923 to 1964.

In the 1880s, he moved from Daleville to Bushnell, Sumter County, Florida, north of Tampa, with his parents, Rev.

His father was the pastor of the original Bushnell Presbyterian Church, while his mother taught children in her home and then at the first school there.

2d 354 (Fla. 1957), Chief Justice Terrell wrote that he apparently considered Adolf Hitler a more honorable[failed verification] authority than the United States Supreme Court, and systems where groups of people were enslaved, denied freedom or discriminated against on the basis of race or origin as admirable, saying: "Some anthropologists and historians much better informed than I am point out that segregation is as old as the hills.

At the same time, he was unafraid of writing detailed opinions condemning inequality experienced by Florida's African-American citizens.

When, in Cacciatore v. State, 49 So.2d 588 (Fla. 1950), the full Supreme Court of Florida reversed a criminal defendant's conviction without explaining why, an apparently frustrated Justice Terrell went out of his way to pen the only special concurrence to the decision.

The law was his life and he gave unstintingly of his time, talent and energy for the cause of justice and the improvement of our profession.

"[8] On May 17, 1982, an Oral History Dinner remembering the contributions of Justice William Glenn Terrell was held as part of an initiative sponsored by Florida Governor Bob Graham.,[9][10] In addition, the American Inn of Court in Tampa, Florida was named for Justice William Glenn Terrell.