Halifax County supervisors chairman William I. Fitzgerald and fellow Board members presented a framed plaque of commendation honoring the late Judge Irvin Douglas Sugg, Sr. to members of his family. On hand for the presentation Tuesday night were Sugg’s wife, Bernice, daughter Norma Jean Whitted and her husband, George, and their son, David, along with Judge Sugg’s son, Bryant Lee Sugg (left), now a judge in the Hampton Roads area. The commendation took note of the 32 years that Judge Sugg spent in private law practice before his appointment as the first African-American judge in the Tenth Judicial District. (SOMcL photo)