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Feb

02

JUDGE BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY NAMED CHIEF JUDGE OF THE D.C. COURT OF APPEALS

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

Jan

31

WOMEN ARE BACK AT FEDERAL PRISON IN DANBURY

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

Jan

20

WHY THE ELECTION OF 9 BLACK FEMALE JUDGES IN ALABAMA MATTERS

In an unprecedented event, nine black women were elected as circuit and district judges in Jefferson County, Alabama, this November. Continue Reading

Jan

19

IVP REPORT FROM THE HIGH PLAINS

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

Jan

19

KANSAS INFORMED VOTERS PROGRAMS PROVES SUCCESS

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

Jan

16

FOR FEMALE INMATES IN NEW YORK CITY, PRISON IS A CROWDED, WINDOWLESS ROOM

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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