CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- U.S. District Court Judge Brent McKnight, whose legal career was capped by his nomination to the federal bench in 2003, died Saturday of esophageal cancer. He was 52 years old. McKnight was diagnosed with cancer in late June and continued to work almost until his death at Presbyterian Hospital, said his wife, Beth. He addressed the Mecklenburg County Bar Association on Nov. 18, telling the group that "justice grounded in truth is our lodestar, what we set our sights on, what gives our judicial institutions their purpose," according to a copy of his remarks. McKnight spent 20...
