Judge Rupert Byrdsong is a tireless advocate for DEIA within the judicial system. Prior to his appointment as a Los Angeles ...

A judge has barred the Trump administration from immediately moving to shut down a small federal agency that supports ...

Macon Bolling Allen went on to become the nation's first African American judge and was a partner at the first Black-led firm in South Carolina. The portrait arrived in Portland in 1873.

In a historic milestone for Oregon’s judiciary, Judge Raymond Dean Crutchley now serves as the first African-American judge east of the Cascades, presiding over the Deschutes County Circuit Court.

Lewis, McNeil added, served as a good role model. "He took seriously his job as a judge but understood the lives of African Americans who had come from very difficult circumstances," McNeil added.

In our own community, women continue to break new ground in various fields, like Judge Tierra Jones, a powerful figure in the courtroom whose impact is felt beyond her role.