Agnes Chappell was the first African American woman to practice law in Jefferson County. She is a Judge in the Domestic Relations Division, Place 23 on the tenth Judicial Circuit of the Court of Alabama.
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Debra Bennett Winston, a Circuit Court Judge, Domestic Relations, grew up in Alabama before integration with very few resources. She had to support herself and work her way through UAB to receive her Bachelors Degree
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Tamara Harris Johnson grew up on what is known as “Dynamite Hill”, the nickname of a district of Smithfield, where a series of bombings were designed to intimidate African Americans living in the prosperous community.
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Elisabeth French was raised by a single mother school teacher. Her mother made sacrifices, and Elisabeth was able to obtain a full athletic scholarship in volleyball at The University of Montevallo.
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Shera Grant joined her identical twin sister on the bench of the Jefferson County Court System in 2016 as a district court judge.
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Javan Patton is a Civil Circuit judge and the youngest of the judges elected in 2016. Her grandfather, W. C. Patton, was a voting rights activist and headed the Alabama chapter of the NAACP during the time that it was barred by the state of Alabama because of civil rights protests.
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Nakita Blocton says that if her life had a title, it would be “From the Trench to the Bench”. Nakita grew up in a home wither mother as a single parent, but she had a great father figure – her brother.
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Lynneice Washington is District Attorney, Jefferson County (Bessemer Cut Off). She was also elected in 2016 and is the first African American woman elected District Attorney in Alabama.
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Agnes Chappell was the first African American woman to practice law in Jefferson County. She is a Judge in the Domestic Relations Division, Place 23 on the tenth Judicial Circuit of the Court of Alabama.
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