Judge’s reprimand for Supremes comment “shows progress”

February 27, 2008

So says Lynn Hecht Schafran, director of the National Judicial Education Program, in a post at Ms. JD.

Maryland Judge W. Kennedy Boone was reprimanded last month for calling three African-American women lawyers “the Supremes” and advising the defendant to “get an experienced male attorney.”

CARYN TAMBER, Legal Affairs Writer

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