JUDGE

TAYLOR
BY: IRIS, GABRIELLE, NHEO
The Role • The elderly judger in Maycomb

• He often looks like he’s asleep and not paying

attention

• He pays close attention to court proceedings and is

a strict and fair judger.

•Judge Taylor serves mostly as mediator and

facilitator for the trial

The Paragraph That Best
Characterize Judge Taylor
"Judge Taylor was on the bench, looking like
a sleepy old shark, his pilot fish writing
rapidly below in front of him. Judge Taylor
looked like most judges I had ever seen:
amiable, white-haired, slightly ruddy-faced,
he was a man who ran his court with an
alarming informality—he sometimes
propped his feet up, he often cleaned his
fingernails with his pocket knife. In long
equity hearings, especially after dinner, he
gave the impression of dozing, an impression
dispelled forever when a lawyer once
deliberately pushed a pile of books to the
floor in a desperate effort to wake him up."
A Quote That Best Describes
Judge Taylor
Judge Taylor naming Atticus to
 Looks like he’s asleep and not defend that boy was no accident.
paying attention. And maybe the judge has his own
reasons for naming Atticus. 
 He is a strict and fair judger
Comparison
Atticus  Judge Taylor
 Taylor is an old magistrate  Atticus is an elderly lawyer
 He appoints Atticus as  He represents the African-
Robinson's defender American man Tom
Robinson 

 They did not discriminate against black people at the time.

Opinion About Judge Taylor
Judge Taylor is a white man

 He looks like he feels sleepy all the

tim.

 Scout described Judge Taylor that he

was “ amiable”.

Judge Taylor eats cigars during

court.
THEMES

- Judge Taylor
does his best to
- Good, evil  - Human dignity
give Tom a fair
trial.