For Immediate Release

	Janurary 27, 2005 NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION MOURNS THE DEATH OF HONORABLE HENRY LATIMER Ft. Lauderdale, Florida- Honorable Henry Latimer, a prominent attorney and one of Broward County’s first black circuit court judges, was killed Monday night after loosing control of his car and slamming into a concrete piling. Latimer, 67, of Plantation, was westbound on I-595 when he came across a large piece of plastic debris just after 7 p.m. A witness who was driving behind Latimer saw the vehicle swerve to the right to avoid the debris, then to the left, lose control and crash into the piling underneath the northbound Interstate 95 flyover ramp from eastbound I-595. Latimer was a graduate of the University of Miami’s Law School. He was appointed to the bench in 1979 by then-Gov. Bob Graham and won re-election without opposition the following year. He left the bench in 1983 and was nominated twice for a federal judgeship. In recent years, Latimer was a trial attorney and shareholder in the law firm of Greenberg Traurig. He represented the city of Pompano Beach in the long-running dispute over the Yardarm property, which the city finally won. The city of Fort Lauderdale also hired him in recent years to investigate allegations of discrimination among the city’s workforce. Latimer is survived by his wife Mildred Latimer, 62, and daughters Desiree Latimer, 42, and Tracie Kimreka Latimer, 40. The National Bar Association is the nation’s oldest and largest organization of attorneys of color, representing a professional network of over 18,000 lawyers, judges, educators and law students.