Former President Bill Clinton was in Memphis over the weekend to deliver the eulogy for Judge D'Army Bailey.
Bailey helped to preserve the Lorraine Motel and transform the crumbling building into the National Civil Rights Museum. He found donors to buy the hotel, which became a museum in 1991. He was elected for a Circuit Court judgeship in 1990, and in 2007, Bailey was a finalist to join the Tennessee Supreme Court.
He left the bench to enter private practice in 2009 before being re-elected to a Circuit Court judgeship last year.
"The man was moving all his life," Clinton said in his tribute. "And he believed everything should have a moving purpose, including this museum. He left you and America a national treasure."