Harold Wood, the first black state Supreme Court justice in Westchester County history, died on April 14 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to information from the Dorsey Funeral Home in Ossining. He was 96.

Wood, a Bridgeport, Connecticut, native who served as a sergeant with the Army Air Corps at Tuskegee, Alabama, graduated from Cornell Law School after World War II. He also received a master of law degree from New York University School of Law.

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