Artist Bill Hennessy Jr., whose sketches brought courtroom drama to life, dies at 67

For over 40 years, artist William Hennessy Jr. went where cameras couldn’t go and captured drama from the Supreme Court to circuit and district courts across D.C., Maryland and Virginia.

His family notified news organizations Wednesday that Hennessy, of Ashburn, Virginia, died Monday, Dec. 9, which was his birthday. He was 67.

A statement from his family relayed the breadth of Hennessy’s work capturing the atmosphere in court cases from Iran Contra to the White House CIA leak “and countless other high-profile cases” and noted...