Judicial Heroes & Legends: July 2022 – Hon. Rya W. Zobel
In 1979, Congress created four additional Article III judgeships on the United States District Court in…
Judicial Heroes & Legends
Each month the College celebrates an exemplary or inspiring jurist who demonstrated courage in doing what all judges are supposed to do: administer justice fairly according to the law and without regard to outside influences or personal considerations.
Judicial Heroes and Legends: May 2022 – Hon. Constance Baker Motley
When Ketanji Brown Jackson was nominated to become the first Black woman justice of the Supreme Court o…
Judicial Heroes & Legends: January 2022 – Hon. Marilyn Zahm (Ret.)
Early in her legal career, just out of law school, Marilyn Zahm represented indigent clients for a legal se…
Judicial Heroes & Legends: November 2021 – Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
She enrolled at Stanford University at age 16 and graduated from Stanford Law School at age 22. She fini…
Judicial Heroes & Legends: September 2021 – Chief Justices Ralph Gants and Mark Cady
Fairness champions who left us too soon Iowa Chief Justice Mark Cady The parallels between Mark Cady …
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