* Kenneth K. Hall; Judge in Citadel Case

Kenneth K. Hall, 81, a federal appeals judge who affirmed a decision to allow female cadets at the Citadel, a military college in Charleston, S.C. Hall was a state and federal judge in West Virginia for 47 years. In 1976 he was named to the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, where as part of a three-judge panel he heard appeals in Shannon Faulkner’s three-year legal fight to become the first female cadet at the Citadel. In 1995, Hall wrote a concurring opinion that affirmed U.S. District Judge C. Weston Houck’s ruling that found the Citadel in violation of Faulkner’s constitutional rights. Hall wrote a separate opinion because he believed that only finding that the Citadel’s status quo “offended the Constitution” did not go far enough: “I am convinced that we have embarked on a path that will inevitably fall short of providing women their deserved equal access to important avenues of power and responsibility. . . . Though we correctly concluded that maintaining the status quo offended the Constitution, we failed to mandate [the Citadel’s] integration, and thus we failed.” On Thursday in Charleston, W. Va., after a long illness.