What If...The Supreme Court Looked Like--All Women
No, we're not talking Anthony Scalia in drag. We're talking about Dr. Maria Battista Kerle's vision for an innovative program. A panel of several Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices gave their opinions tonight at Clarion University's Venango Campus, on what an all-women Supreme Court would look like. Or whether it would even be a good idea.
All said no: It is better to have diversity: Neither all-women, nor all-men. And, neither all of one or another race.
Here I am with Judge maureen A. Skerda, first female judge of District Thirty-seven; Judge Stephanie Domitrovich, Court of Common Pleas, Sixth Judicial District, Erie; Dr. Maria Battista-Kerle professor of Speech Communication at Clarion University-Venango Campus; Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer, Superior Court of Pennsylvania; Judge Cheryl Lynn Allen, Superior Court of Pennsylvania; Madame Justice Sandra Schultz Newman, retired, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; Judge Jacqueline O. Shogan, Superior Court of Pennsylvania; Judge Maureen E. Lally-Green, Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
Judge Sandra Schultz Newman is the first and only female elected to Pennsylvania's highest Court, which is 67 years older than the United States Supreme Court. This makes it the oldest court in the nation!
