1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Judge Damon Keith Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Judge Damon Keith was born on July 4, 1922, in Detroit, Michigan, and died at his home in Detroit, Michigan, surrounded by family and loved ones, on April 28, 2019. (2) Judge Damon Keith received a bachelor of arts from West Virginia State University, a juris doctor from Howard University School of Law, and a master of laws from Wayne State University Law School. (3) Judge Damon Keith served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946 when he was discharged as a sergeant. (4) Judge Damon Keith devoted his life to public service and served more than 50 years on the Federal bench where he was a champion for civil rights and individual liberties for all. (5) Judge Damon Keith served as one of the first cochairman of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission at its inception in 1964 where he worked to oppose discrimination and enforce equal protection under the law. (6) Judge Damon Keith was first nominated to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in 1967 by President Lyndon Johnson where he served as the first African-American chief judge of the court from 1975 to 1977. (7) Judge Damon Keith became the sixth African American to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit when he was nominated by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, where he served as senior judge on the court from May 1, 1995, until his passing. (8) Judge Damon Keith in a 1970 decision upheld the civil rights of Pontiac, Michigan, students when he ordered a bus policy and new boundaries in Pontiac, Michigan, schools in order to end racial segregation. (9) Judge Damon Keith defended the protections guaranteed under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States when he held in United States v. Sinclair, 321 F. Supp. 1074 (E.D. Mich. 1971), a landmark decision upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States, that the United States Government must