Diversity in the Law Part I: The Judiciary
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As recently as the 1960s, there were only two minorities on the Superior Court in New Jersey. Today, nearly 15% of the judges in the state are minorities.

This edition of Due Process examines the role of judicial diversity, and how a New Jersey Supreme Court commission, created to address the underrepresentation of minorities on the bench, has helped bring change to a once monochromatic bastion of the law.

Sandra King reports on the stories of Judge Claude Coleman and Judge Shirley Tolentino, two lawyers who have helped change the landscape of the judiciary, while Raymond Brown hosts an in-studio debate featuring former New Jersey Supreme Court Justice James Coleman, the first African American appointed to the state’s highest court, and former New Jersey Attorney General Zulima Farber.