With the confirmation of Judge Tiffany Johnson to the Northern District of Georgia this week, Biden has now appointed 40 Black women to lifetime federal judgeships—more than any president in U.S ...

In addition to Jackson, Biden has appointed 39 other Black women to lifetime positions across the federal judiciary, including various district and appeals courts. Judge Tiffany Johnson was ...

In the final days of his presidency, Biden has made good on a campaign promise to diversify the federal judiciary, by appointing a record-breaking 40 Black women as judges. All together ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Erica Hughes, a candidate for district judge in Harris County, Texas. Hughes and other Black women are fighting legal challenges to their campaigns. The spotlight ...

BWL is a nonprofit corporation formed in 1975 after a small group of Los Angeles-based African American women judges and attorneys held a luncheon meeting to discuss the marked absence of an ...

In 1996, Judge Taylor became the first Black woman chief judge for Michigan's Eastern District following her 1979 appointment. In 1979, the late Anna Diggs Taylor became the first Black woman ...

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. — The first Black woman appointed to judge in the District Court of Maryland in Prince George's County is getting ready to retire. The Honorable Sheila R. Tillerson Adams ...

Judge Adams has served as the Administrative Judge for 12 years. Judge Adams was the first Black woman appointed by then Gov. William Donald Schaefer to the District Court of Maryland in Prince ...

FAITH EGBUONU SPOKE WITH JUDGE SHAMARA HENDERSON, NEW MEXICO’S FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN TO HOLD STATEWIDE OFFICE DRIVEN, AMBITIOUS JUDGE HENDERSON, A WOMAN OF GRACE AND HONOR. I’M DOING WELL.

Judge Cynthia J. Ayers, the first Black woman judge elected to the Marion County Superior Court and the Indianapolis Bar's Association's first African American President, died April 19 ...