Tag Archives: ‘Every judge’s dream:’ Ketanji Brown Jackson gives hope to Black female judges

Shequitta Kelly was a straight-A student when her high school counselor told her she couldn’t go to law school. The white adult in Michigan City, Ind. told the then 15-year-old Kelly, who is Black and was pregnant at the time, that she should settle on a trade instead. Perhaps she could be a beautician, Kelly recalled the counselor suggesting. Now …

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