A US district judge named John H. Wood Jr. was assassinated in 1979 by Charles Voyde Harrelson.
He served as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas before being assassinated by Charles Harrelson outside Wood's home in San Antonio, in 1979. Charles Voyde Harrelson (July 23, 1938  March 15, 2007) was an American hitman and organized crime figure who was convicted of assassinating federal judge John H. Wood Jr., the first federal judge to be killed in the 20th century. 
