Lisa Holder White sworn in as first Black woman on state Supreme Court: ‘We need not limit our dreams or settle for less’

Lisa Holder White, center left, is sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois by Justice Mary Jane Theis during White’s Installation Ceremony at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Thursday in Springfield. (Thomas J. Turney/The State Journal-Register via AP)

A week after Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, a comparable trail was blazed Thursday into Illinois’ top court. 

Lisa Holder White took the oath in Springfield to become the first Black woman to serve as a justice on the Illinois Supreme Court in the institution’s 203-year history.