Virginia’s first full-time Black judge and a coach who has been a mentor to Richmond youths for decades are among the latest group of people City Council has approved for recognition with honorary street signs.

The history-making judge is Willard H. Douglas Jr. He cracked Virginia’s lily-white judiciary in 1974 when the General Assembly, prodded by then Richmond state Sen. L. Douglas Wilder, elected him to serve as a judge on Richmond’s Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.

The veteran coach is Harold Harris, who for several decades has worked with youths at the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club on R Street in Church Hill. He also is a former head coach of the Armstrong High School girls basketball team.

The council voted Dec. 12 to designate the 600 block of Edge Hill Road in Judge Douglas’ honor and to designate the blocks of R Street between 36th and 38th streets in Mr. Harris’ honor.

Four others also won council approval for posthumous recognition:

The late Rev. Kenneth E. Dennis Sr., pastor of Greater Mount Moriah Baptist

Church for 34 years, whose street sign will be posted on Charity Street next to the church in Gilpin Court;

The late Langston R. Davis Sr., a top Black contractor for decades as head of Davis Brothers Construction Co., whose street signs will be posted in the 900 and 1000 blocks of Overbrook Road in North Side;

The late Richard Jones and Bessie Jones, a Randolph neighborhood couple who were key figures in the Richmond Crusade for Voters for decades, who were approved for a street sign in the 1100 block of Eggleston Street in the near West End.