How Some of The Texas 19 Are Making Their Judgeships Count

Seven months into their tenure, these Black women are disrupting the system, for good

Layla A. Jones
ZORA
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7 min readSep 4, 2019

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Harris County Courthouse. Photo: dlewis33 / E+ / Getty Images

On a Friday evening, Judge Shannon Baldwin is at home with her toddler daughter and taking time out to be interviewed.

“That’s probably just my boring life,” Baldwin says with a laugh. But her life…

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Layla A. Jones
ZORA
Writer for

I’m a professional journalist and lover of all things Black. I work at a fun, hyper-local Philly pub called Billy Penn. On here, I write a/b my other interests.