Meet Judge Constance Baker Motley – the first African-American woman to serve as a federal judge. She clerked for future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and was the lead trial attorney ...

The 19 African-American women in judgeships in Harris County include Judge Shannon Baldwin, Judge Lucia Bates, Judge Ronnisha Bowman, Judge Sharon M. Burney, Judge Dedra Davis, Judge Linda Marie ...

The U.S. Postal Service is celebrating the contributions of Judge Constance Baker Motley, a civil rights pioneer and judiciary trailblazer, as the 47th honoree in the Black Heritage stamp series.

The "Harris County Black Girl Magic" campaign sweeps for 17 African American women in 2018 elections. In total, 19 women now hold positions as Harris County judges.

There are 19 African-American women on the ballot.” At the very least, incoming judge Latosha Lewis Payne figured it was worth a photo. It didn’t take long for the image took over social media ...

Roberts is part of the 11% of the nation’s federal judges who are Black, of which 38% are women according to a report from the American Bar Association. That means more diversity is needed.

In January 2022, one year after Joe Biden assumed the White House, Justice Stephen Breyer of the US Supreme Court announced ...

President Joe Biden is reshaping the federal judiciary in a historic way, appointing a record-breaking 40 Black women judges during his presidency. This achievement not only fulfills a campaign ...

Retired U.S. District Court judge Vanessa Gilmore stated, “This has never been an issue before we had a sweep of African-American women who became judges, and no one was concerned…I feel like ...

In 1918, Gertrude Rush became the first African American woman licensed to practice law in Iowa. "She was a giving person, but she was a warrior too," Attorney Vicky Long Hill said.

First female African American Presiding Judge in Jackson County . ... And According to data by the Federal Judicial Center— only 5.7% of all active federal judges are Black women.

Jackson County Circuit Court announced Judge Jalilah Otto as the court’s newest presiding judge and the first African American to take on the role in the court’s nearly 200-year history.