LC control no. | sh2004004583 |
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Topical heading | African American women judges |
Variant(s) | Women judges, African American |
See also | Women judges--United States |
Found in | Work 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) |