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African American women judges

LC control no.sh2004004583
Topical headingAfrican American women judges
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Variant(s)Women judges, African American
See alsoWomen judges--United States
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Found inWork cat.: Jane Matilda Bolin papers, 1943-1993 (Jane Matilda Bolin; first black woman judge in United States when appointed to Domestic Relations Court of New York City in 1939)
N.Y. Times, Obit., Oct. 11, 1979: p. D19 (Edith Sampson; first black woman elected to the Illinois (Cook County) Bench 1962)
N.Y. Newsday, July 8, 1994: p. B17 (Vanessa Gilmore; youngest federal judge in the nation and the first African-American woman appointed to the federal bench in Texas)
The Richmond News Leader, Nov. 23, 1990: p. 21 (Black female judges)