BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - After two decades on the bench, Judge Carole Smitherman is officially retiring—but she’s not leaving the legal world behind. On Friday night, colleagues, friends, and ...

Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, the first Black woman to become a judge in Northern California, will speak Saturday at the 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration at Modesto Junior College.

In our own community, women continue to break new ground in various fields, like Judge Tierra Jones, a powerful figure in the courtroom whose impact is felt beyond her role.

Maloney. Yet they know little about her except that she was the first African American woman elected Masten District representative to the Buffalo Common Council. In fact there is a College at the ...