Donned in their regal Black robes, these Black women continue to pave the ... She made history as Georgia’s first African-American Chief Presiding Judge of a state court. From there Hatchett ...
making her the first-ever female judge of the 181st Judicial District Court and the first African American District Judge in Potter and Randall counties. She succeeded Judge John Board ...
The Olive Branch High School alumna became the first female African-American judge in Tennessee history in 1982.