by Max Marbut
Staff Writer
“There are a million of them”
That phrase referred to stories and was repeated several times Thursday afternoon at the investiture of Fourth Judicial Circuit Judge Jefferson W. Morrow.
His full name was only spoken a few times as everyone who came on stage to honor Morrow and share their memories were speaking about and to “Jeff.” The atmosphere was lighthearted in the way that can only happen when close friends and family are together and the Terry Theater in the Times-Union Center felt more like a living room than a courtroom.
Poems were read and also recited from memory and more than one fishing story was related. Some of the speakers even produced photographic evidence to substantiate that the angling tales they told were true.
The most serious moments in the entire ceremony came when Rev. Steven Goyer, pastor of the Riverside Presbyterian Church, paused just before he delivered the benediction. He turned toward Morrow and said, “There is a lot of difference between our robes. I get to proclaim justice and mercy instead of dispensing it. May you love justice, walk humbly and live in kindness with your Lord.”
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