National Headliners

Jet, July 9, 2001

Two New York Democratic senators disagreed about the naming of the first federal courthouse for a Black. Senior senator Charles E. Schumer wanted the Gotham building to honor Judge Constance Baker Motley while Sen. Hillary Clinton drafted legislation for a Judge Thurgood Marshall building ... Florida Rep.

Alcee Hastings was named to the House Rules committee, the first Black member since Rep. Alan Wheat, while new Rep. Diane Watson of California was placed on the International Relations committee ... Southern University graduate La'Techa Johnson, 22, was the American Chemical Society's first scholar hired by the PPG Industries as a plant chemist ... William F. Scott, Howard U's first labor lawyer, was hired as the chief labor and civil rights officer of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.