Jane Bolin Aug. 6, 1926 – Jan. 31, 2014 Resident of Moraga Jane Bolin died on Friday, January 31, after a long illness. Jane was born in Mansfield, Missouri in the Ozark Mountains to Horace (Jake) and ...

Jane Bolin had a habit of making history. Jane Bolin was born on April 11, 1908, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the youngest of four children born to Gaius Bolin and Matilda Emery Bolin. Her mother died when ...

The struggle for inclusion and diversity in politics has ensued for decades, but for the first time in U.S. history, the rising political power of black women took center stage in the 2018 election.

Jane Bolin, who became the first black female judge in the United States when she was sworn in by New York City Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1939, has died. She was 98. Bolin’s death Monday in New ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Stanton College Preparatory School freshman, Jayah Peoples, 15, created a portrait of the first Black female judge in the United States as Duval County's first elected Black ...

Jane Bolin, who was the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School and became the nation’s first black female judge, has died at age 98. Ms. Bolin was sworn in by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia ...

"I stand on the shoulders of many who have come before me," Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson declared in her opening statement at her confirmation hearing to potentially become the first Black woman ...

Jane Bolin, the nation’s first black female judge and the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, has died. She was 98. Bolin’s family contacted the New York City Bar Association on ...

Visitation will be at 1:00 PM December 13th at The Hamil Family Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM, Monday, December 13th at The Hamil Family Funeral Home With Charlie Jones ...