Juanita Kidd Stout: September 21, 1959

Jet, Sept 25, 1995

Juanita Kidd Stout, lawyer and judge, was named by Governor David L. Lawrence of Pennsylvania to serve as judge of the Philadelphia Municipal Court m this day. Later that week, she was nominated by the Democratic Party to run in November for a full term on the Municipal Court. Stout won the term and became the first Black woman to become a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

She was born in Wewoka, OK. Judge Stout received a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa and a law degree and master of laws degree from Indiana University.