C9-4: (Political Parties/Judiciary Post) From Drug Wars to Water Wars, Fifty Years on the Bench

I read an article about Judge Richard Mills and his journey as a law student in Macon, Georgia to a U.S. judge for the Central District of Illinois. Richard Mills sat through years and years of cases regarding famous gangs, water disputes in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia, and many different more. Mills was appointed a judge to the central district of Illinois by President Reagan. He's been a judge for fifty years and says each day is an adventure. I hadn't read anything about him before, but I instantly became interested when I read that he was a law student at Mercer University, because that's one of the colleges I'm looking at going to. Judge Richard Mills is described as an inspiring man, and one who has seen more controversy and conflict in the last fifty years than anybody else. Below is a picture of Richard Mills as a U.S. District Court Judge.