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On this week’s episode of Judicial History, we meet Burnita Shelton Matthews – the first woman to serve as a U.S. District Judge. We also have love ❤️, perseverance 💪, and even a cameo by Amelia Earhart 🛩️.
What are we waiting for?
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On this week’s episode of Judicial History, we meet Burnita Shelton Matthews – the first woman to serve as a U.S. District Judge. We also have love ❤️, perseverance 💪, and even a cameo by Amelia Earhart 🛩️.
What are we waiting for?
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Burnita Shelton was born in 1894 – one of 6 children and the only 👧.
She gravitated toward law but her father pushed her to study music as it was more "ladylike." So she attended conservatory 🎼, but asked relatives to send her law books to read in her spare time ... 📚
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She gravitated toward law but her father pushed her to study music as it was more "ladylike." So she attended conservatory 🎼, but asked relatives to send her law books to read in her spare time ... 📚
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Soon after, Burnita married Percy Matthews 💒, who then enlisted to fight in WWI. Burnita traveled to DC so that she could attend one of the few law schools that would accept 👩.
When her father found out, he had a change of ❤️ and offered to pay her tuition, but she refused!
When her father found out, he had a change of ❤️ and offered to pay her tuition, but she refused!
As you know, the Supreme Court Justices have had their current building only since 1935.
This leads to a gripping question: Where were those guys for the first 146 years!? 🤔
What do you say we take a little road trip together to find out? 🚗 I’ll drive . . .
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This leads to a gripping question: Where were those guys for the first 146 years!? 🤔
What do you say we take a little road trip together to find out? 🚗 I’ll drive . . .
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First stop – New York City! 🍎
The Supreme Court was born in 1789 (thanks to the Judiciary Act of that year) and lived, ever so briefly, in the Royal Exchange Building right here. 👇
(It wasn't the fanciest of beginnings - the Royal Exchange was a covered marketplace . . . )
The Supreme Court was born in 1789 (thanks to the Judiciary Act of that year) and lived, ever so briefly, in the Royal Exchange Building right here. 👇
(It wasn't the fanciest of beginnings - the Royal Exchange was a covered marketplace . . . )
Bonus Fun Fact: Before the Court convened, the federal court for the District of New York sat in the building on Nov. 3, 1789 – making it the 1st federal court to sit under the new Constitution!🥇
Their first business? Admitting lawyers to the bar, including Aaron Burr (Sir).⭐️
Their first business? Admitting lawyers to the bar, including Aaron Burr (Sir).⭐️
