Edith Jacqueline Ingram Grant, who served as Hancock County's probate judge for 36 years, was also Georgia's first black female judge.

Ingram became the first African-American woman probate judge in the United States in 1969 when she was elected to serve on the Hancock County Court of the Ordinary.

Karen Crowshoe's Blackfoot heritage will be celebrated Friday when she is sworn in as Alberta's first female First Nations provincial court judge.

The Democratic Jenkins addressed the crowd of friends, family and political leaders at SUNY Westchester Community College.