Joseph Cornelius Waddy

Joseph Cornelius Waddy (May 26, 1911 – August 1, 1978) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Early and family life Born in Louisa County, Virginia, Waddy moved to Alexandria, Virginia when he was seventeen years old, in 1928. Ten years later, he won an oratorical contest on the American Negro's constitutional rights, sponsored by the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World. After his family moved across the Potomac River to Washington, D.C., he graduated from Dunbar High School. In 1935 Waddy graduated with honors, receiving an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. After an additional three years of study, he received a Bachelor of Laws from Howard University School of Law, graduating at the top of his class. He married Elizabeth H. Hardy and they had a son, Joseph C. Waddy Jr. Career