04/07/2022
“‘We Belong in These Spaces’: Jackson’s Successors Reflect on Her Nomination”—an article in today’s —features some of our journal’s Black women leaders, including Virginia Thomas ‘23, Executive Managing Editor for Solicited Content & former Article Selection Editor 📚
➡️ Virginia Thomas helped pass guidelines in New York banning hair discrimination three years earlier, so seeing Judge Jackson “with sisterlocks, standing up there in her glory and her professionalism,” was particularly satisfying.
“It’s an opportunity for people to really visualize and see Black women doing what they do, which is being unapologetically successful, unapologetically confident in who they are,” Ms. Thomas, 31, said.
As a vice president for the Black Law Students Association, Ms. Thomas organized screenings of Judge Jackson’s confirmation hearings. The highlight, she said, was attracting the attention of security guards, cafeteria workers and custodians who work at the law school.
“Watching with the staff in the morning before students started trickling in after classes and realizing that this moment is bigger than just for law school nerds who love the Supreme Court,” she said. “It also matters for everyday people.”
