Matthew J. Perry
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Matthew James Perry is an attorney and in 1979 appointed as the first African-American United States District Judge in South Carolina, serving on the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. In 1976 Perry had been the first African-American attorney from the Deep South to be appointed to the federal judiciary, which he served on the United States Court of Military Appeals. Perry established his career with civil rights litigation. Other landmark cases included achieving the integration of Clemson University and reapportionment of the state legislature.