Book contents
- Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of the American Judiciary
- Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of the American Judiciary
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Qualification, Selection, and Retirement Characteristics of Women, Minorities, and Minority-Women State Supreme Court Judges
- 2 Latinas and the Texas Judiciary
- 3 Structural and Partisan Effects on the Ascension of Women of Color to State Appellate Courts
- 4 LGBT Judges in the United States
- 5 Race, Gender, and the Battle to Seat Constance Baker Motley, the First Black Woman Appointed to the Federal Bench
- 6 Diversity Abound
- 7 Marked for Excellence
- 8 Navigating Rising to the Top: Justice Sotomayor
- Concluding Remarks
- Index
- References
3 - Structural and Partisan Effects on the Ascension of Women of Color to State Appellate Courts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2018
Book contents
- Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of the American Judiciary
- Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of the American Judiciary
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Qualification, Selection, and Retirement Characteristics of Women, Minorities, and Minority-Women State Supreme Court Judges
- 2 Latinas and the Texas Judiciary
- 3 Structural and Partisan Effects on the Ascension of Women of Color to State Appellate Courts
- 4 LGBT Judges in the United States
- 5 Race, Gender, and the Battle to Seat Constance Baker Motley, the First Black Woman Appointed to the Federal Bench
- 6 Diversity Abound
- 7 Marked for Excellence
- 8 Navigating Rising to the Top: Justice Sotomayor
- Concluding Remarks
- Index
- References
Summary
Barbara L. Graham and Adriano Udani’s research objective is to investigate whether judicial selection methods and political party effects present barriers to women of color’s ascension to state appellate courts. Their data is based on a cross-sectional analysis of all intermediate and state supreme court judges on the bench as of January 2017 (approximately 1,280). Their models predict the likelihood that the observed judge is a woman of color for intermediate appellate courts and state supreme courts. Because Graham and Udani are interested in the conditional effects of judicial selection system characteristics, including partisan effects, they present predicted probabilities that conceptualize and communicate the nature of the relationships uncovered in our research.
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