Hugh B. Scott (1949 – February 19, 2021) was a

magistrate judge The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law. In ancient Rome, a '' magistratus'' was one of the highest ranking government officers, and possessed both judici ...

of United States District Court for the Western District of New York. He was appointed on June 1, 1995, and he retired on July 1, 2015. Scott was the first African American to become assistant attorney general in charge in Western New York, as well as the first African American to become assistant United States Attorney, assistant corporation counsel and assistant county attorney. At age 32, Scott was elected to the Buffalo City Court. He was re-elected to another 10-year term before leaving the position to become the first African American to sit on the federal bench in the Western District of New York. Scott was born in 1949 in Amherst, New York, and he received his B.A. from

Niagara University Niagara University (NU) is a private Catholic university in the Vincentian tradition in Lewiston in Niagara County, New York. It is run by the Congregation of the Mission and has 3,300 undergraduate students in 50 academic programs. Appro ...

in 1971 and his J.D. from the University at Buffalo Law School in 1974. He died on February 19, 2021.

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Judge Scott's profile on the District Court website
1949 births Living people University at Buffalo Law School alumni Niagara University alumni United States Attorneys for the Western District of New York United States magistrate judges {{US-federal-judge-stub