The Honorable Clyde W. Waite to Present about DEI and CRT at Pebble Hill Church on Sunday, March 9, 2025
by Gary Schoenberg | Mar 4, 2025 | Announcements
Our Celebration Speaker is the Honorable Clyde W. Waite, early Pebble member and first African American Judge in Bucks County. He will be presenting on the following topic: “Diversity Equity and Inclusion and Critical Race Theory” with a reference to the following individuals, “Tom Thomas, Ed Bannan and Lee Bailey” known to the Pebble Hill community, as connective metaphors and real-life exemplars of DEI and CRT.
Judge Clyde W. Waite, retired after serving 20 years of service on the Bucks County Common Pleas Court, altogether totaling fifty-four years of public service in a long list of public and private positions in Bucks County. He is distinguished as being the only minority to have been elected to the court in Bucks County’s 300 plus year history. Before coming to Bucks County, he served in the volunteer voter registration project in Lowndes County, Alabama where he faced imminent death on two occasions.
Fellow volunteers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were killed in neighboring Mississippi at that time. These events were described in the book which was recognized in the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on the local history of “Bloody Lowndes County” drawn from the records of the Alabama Historical Association.
Clyde W. Waite earned his B.A. from Howard Univ. in 1968; J.D. from Yale Law School in 1971. He started his legal career in Bucks County with the Legal Aid Society and Asst. Public Def. 1971-72; He clerked for Judge Edmund V. Ludwig and Judge Harriet M. Mims, the first woman elected to the Bucks County bench in1977. He served as Solicitor for Bristol Twp in 1981; Solicitor for Bucks County and Bristol Twp. Ind. Dev. Authorities. He was appointed by PA Gov. Robert Casey to the PA State Planning Board/Futures Council; Local Merit Judicial Selection Com. He has been a member of the Supreme Court’s Judicial Ethics Committee; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedures Committee; and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Superior Court’s Pro Se Committee; among many local Bucks County Boards and Councils. Currently, a member of PA Continuing Legal Education Board of Directors.
Join us for celebration every Sunday at 10:30am in person or on Zoom. Join Zoom link below:
