American woman to preside over civil trials in Philadelphia and as the first African-American president judge in any county in Pennsylvania, retired in 2021 after 37 years of service in the city’s ...

Frederica Massiah-Jackson, a retired Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judge, civil jury trailblazer, and the first African American president judge in Pennsylvania, died Wednesday, Aug. 27. She was ...

He spent his life making millions roar with laughter, but in his final years he languished in a foreign country, estranged ...