judge engelmayer: this is an outside of chambers memory. holiday time late one day, he told us that he was going to take us out to lunch the following day at a seafood restaurant. and we get into a car. we go to a seafood restaurant in anacostia. we walked in, he is leading the way. as thurgood marshall walked into the packed dining room, people realized, then slowly one by one everybody, they just got up and just stood for a minute. they stood for maybe 60 seconds, then he nodded and everyone sat down. but it was a moment that allowed you to see him the way the world saw him and reminded this was not your ordinary supreme court justice. this was a working living legend. >> and there were moments with elevator operators or tourists who bumped into him. that moment out in the world and suddenly you realize, put aside what we have been talking about and in the conference room, forget about storytime and the individual cases. this is the magnitude of the man. this is what he is meant to our country. and we saw it again after he passed away and

judge paul engelmayer is judge in the southern district of new york and has been since 2011. and i should have said, elena, you came on the court in 2010 -- >> mm-hmm. >> and paul went to harvard and to harvard for law school and clerked for judge wald on the d.c. circuit and then was in the solicitor office when drew days was solicitor general. pardon me. and then was in private practice before going on the bench. and professor randall kennedy, the middle to my left, who was a roa roads scholar and clerked for judge kelly wright and joined the harvard faculty in 1984 and has been a very productive prolific author of books, i think remarkably when most people of his colleagues are writing law review articles, he's writing books. and of particular interest, he is a member of the american academy of arts and science and the american philosophical association. so we have a array of three marshall clerks, four marshall clerks with myself. i was there as well in 74-75 for d.c. circuit clerks and all of us, like many -- virtually all of our other alumni of justice marshal's chamber