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Women Breaking Courts’ Glass Ceilings–Slowly

By Barbara Chavez ● Uncategorized ● February 9, 2003

Petra Jimenez Maes was recently named the nation’s first Hispanic woman chief justice of a state supreme court, making a leap of progress for women and Latinos, two groups that are underrepresented in the judicial system.

A.M.E. Church’s Woman Bishop Is a Symbol of Change

By Barbara Chavez ● Uncategorized ● October 10, 2002

Vashti Murphy McKenzie is the first female bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and a symbol of the evolving changes in the ministry and the church’s mission.