In January 2022, one year after Joe Biden assumed the White House, Justice Stephen Breyer of the US Supreme Court announced ...

The Supreme Court of North Carolina unveiled the portrait of retired Associate Justice Patricia Timmons-Goodson, the first African American woman to serve in the state’s highest court and the ...

In solo dissents this term, the justice accused the conservative majority of lawless bias. On the term’s last day, Justice ...

James Coleman Jr., the first Black New Jersey Supreme Court justice and a fierce advocate of social and racial justice, died Aug. 2 at age 91.

Kyra Harris Bolden made history when she was sworn in as an associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court on January 1, 2023, becoming the youngest and first Black woman to sit on the state’s ...

Only one — Supreme Court Vice Chief Justice John Lopez — has been Latino. Cruz, a Democrat, will become the second person of Latino heritage and the first person of African descent to preside ...

Former New Jersey Supreme Court Justice James H. Coleman Jr., the state's first Black associate justice, who experienced systemic racism as a sharecropper's son in Virginia and later as a ...

The Supreme Court of North Carolina unveiled the portrait of retired Associate Justice Patricia Timmons-Goodson, the first African American woman to serve in the state's highest court and the ...