Williams may be the first, but she doesn't want to be the last
Twenty years ago this September, about 750 lawyers, judges and guests gathered in Chicago. Dressed in black tie and formal wear, they came to wish Judge James Parsons, the first black U.S. District Court judge, well in his retirement from the bench.
To their horror, organizers realized the singer to open the event failed to show.
As Patricia Brown Holmes tells it, Judge Ann Claire Williams leaned …
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