Jane Bolin became the first Black woman to break down many barriers during her life. However, the title for which she holds the most recognition is that of the first Black woman judge in the country.

"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 ...

Her standing in Poughkeepsie : family lineage and legacy -- On her own : the years at Wellesley and Yale -- Politics of preparation : the making of the nation's first African American woman judge -- ...

Born and raised in Poughkeepsie, but with a career in the five boroughs of New York City, Jane Matilda Bolin (1908–2007) is best known for a particular “first” of groundbreaking magnitude. She holds ...

Jane Bolin made history over and over. She was the first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law School. The first Black woman to join the New York City Bar Association. The nation’s first Black female ...

Jane Bolin, the nation's first black female judge and the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, has died in New York at the age of 98. Initially discouraged by a Wellesley College ...

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 ...