judge engelmayer? [ applause ] >> thank you, judge wesley, thank you chief katzmann and i want to thank everyone who is here and in courtroom number 1703. tonight's turnout, which encompasses 650 people is a record for this 80-year-old courthouse. part of that is because we have a world-class panel. but it also speaks, i think, to the giant to whom we're paying tribute tonight. it's been 25 years since he retired and nearly 24 years since he died. but thurgood marshall, the lawyer, thurgood marshall the justice still inspires us. he was transformational. thanks to his brilliance and courage and vision in so many areas, civil rights and civil lib b liberties, our role in 2016. our panelists tonight have one thing in common. each of us have had good fortune to spend a year clerking for judge marshall who was already a living legend by the time we got to meet him, including ralph winter who unfortunately was unable to attend tonight because of an illness. ralph, as you heard, was his very first clerk on t