NAWJ Monthly Update March 2017 Continue Reading
NAWJ Monthly Update February 2017 Continue Reading
The District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission has designated Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby to serve as chief judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Judge Blackburne-Rigsby will assume the office on March 18, 2017. Continue Reading
Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut. Following an outcry over the plan to move female prisoners from the only federal women's lockup in the Northeast, the Bureau of Prisons is now considering keeping some female prisoners housed at the Federal Corrections Institute in Danbury, officials said. Continue Reading
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In an unprecedented event, nine black women were elected as circuit and district judges in Jefferson County, Alabama, this November. Continue Reading
Written by Lindsay Peoples, New York Magazine | District 6
The National Association of Women Judges' Informed Voter Project provided critically important help in Kansas' 2016 retention elections, where all of the 11 appellate judges on the ballot were retained by voters on November 8. Continue Reading
Written by Informed Voters Fair Judges | News
The dust is settling as four Kansas Supreme Court Justices remain safely on the bench after a brutal battle between politics and justice. Continue Reading
Written by Informed Voters Fair Judges | News
NAWJ Monthly Update January 2017 Continue Reading
More than a hundred female federal inmates, sentenced to long-term prison, have instead been held for years in two windowless rooms in a detention center in Brooklyn. Continue Reading
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NAWJ Monthly Update December 2016 Continue Reading