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Gordon Martin served as a Massachusetts trial judge for 21 years before retiring. During the Kennedy Administration he was one of a dozen lawyers working on the Deep South voting and intimidation cases for the Civil Rights Division of Robert Kennedy's Justice Department. In that capacity, he prepared United States v. Theron Lynd, the first of the Department's voting rights cases to bring a Mississippi Registrar of Voters to trial. Martin also investigated hunger in the Mississippi Delta and discrimination on southern air bases.