Day 3: America has a long ongoing history with white people specifically white men having power in offices. White men were the cops, president, leaders and judges. However in 1932, an African American woman named Jane Bolin changed the norm when she became the first African american woman to graduate Yale law school in 1931 with her law degree and passed the New York state bar exam in 1932. She graduated in the top 20 at Wellesley college and was one of three women in her class in Yale. She worked as a family court judge where she devoted herself to better the lives of children specifically children of color she served as a judge from 1939 to 1978 and retired at the age of 70. Even after she retired she still devoted her life to working with children by helping them with their state regents by being a reading instructor. She also served on the boards of the NAACP, the national urban league and the Child Welfare League. In 2018, in Harris County, Texas 19 black women were sweared in to be judges these women are:Judge Shannon Baldwin, Judge Lucia Bates, Judge Ronnisha Bowman, Judge Sharon M. Burney, Judge Dedra Davis, Judge Linda Marie Dunson, Judge Toria J. Finch, Judge Ramona Franklin, Judge Lori Chambers Gray, Judge Angela Graves-Harrington, Judge Cassandra Y. Holleman, Judge Erica Hughes, Judge Maria T. Jackson, Judge Tonya Jones, Judge Latosha Lewis Payne, Judge Michelle Moore, Judge Sandra Peake, Judge Germaine Tanner and Judge LaShawn A. Williams. Black women have came along way we are not allowing only white men to make the laws and set the standards now little black girls can grow up and see themselves in a position of power thanks to Jane Bolin for paving the way