{"id":67162,"date":"2023-09-28T08:53:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T08:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africagiant.org\/?p=67162"},"modified":"2023-09-28T08:53:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T08:53:54","slug":"black-excellence-judge-shanta-owens-and-judge-shera-grant-identical-twin-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/?p=67162","title":{"rendered":"Black Excellence! Judge Shanta Owens and Judge Shera Grant identical twin judges Who Made History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Judge Shanta Owens and Judge Shera Grant are not just sisters, but identical twins and the first set of twins to serve simultaneously as district court judges in Jefferson County, Colorado, US. While their journey to the bench was not an easy one, their upbringing with a single mother has instilled in them a deep work ethic and scholastic discipline that has carried them through to their present success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both women graduated from Alabama State University and Louisiana State University School of Law. The sisters believe that they are walking in their purpose, and while it is an honour to sit on the bench at the same time, they&#8217;re not so much interested in making history as they are in doing what they were created to do. Both sisters have aligned their lives with their faith and feel that they are living the lives that God intended for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-related-links\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/2023\/01\/02\/funmi-olorunnipa-badejo-trusted-advisor-us-president\/\">Nigerian-born Funmi Olorunnipa Badejo trusted advisor to the US President<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/2021\/06\/28\/father-daughter-goals-rebekah-coleman-is-making-waves-as-first-black-judge-in-harper-woods-in-69-yrs\/\">Father-daughter goals!- Rebekah Coleman became first Black judge in Harper Woods in 69 yrs<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/2023\/09\/04\/making-history-as-the-first-black-woman-to-sit-on-the-us-supreme-court\/\">Ketanji Brown Jackson making history as the first Black woman to sit on the US Supreme Court not because of a lack of qualified Black individuals<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/2023\/09\/07\/judge-lauren-lake-with-her-sharp-wit-and-no-nonsense-approach\/\">With her sharp wit and no-nonsense approach, Judge Lauren Lake assists litigants in resolving paternity issues<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/2020\/07\/20\/mawunya-mawusi-ghanaian-identical-twin-female-lawyers\/\">Mawunya &amp; Mawusi Ghanaian Identical Twin Female Lawyers<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the growing number of black female judges in Jefferson County, Owens and Grant continue to face discrimination, even within their own courtrooms. Owens expresses that there are several hurdles to overcome, including bias against women and people of colour, as well as their youth and perceived inexperience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grant told Birmingham Times \u201cThere are so many challenges being a woman of colour and not being what people consider a judge,\u201d While adding \u201cSome days when I walk out on the bench, I think that [people] think I\u2019m the assistant and not the judge. Thank God for the robes. There are still people who think we belong in the home and not on the bench, and you can feel that. I try not to think of the challenges we face because they\u2019re always going to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSometimes it\u2019s hard for people to see women, in general, in the position to make real important life decisions for life-altering things,\u201d Owens said. \u201cStacked on top of that, I\u2019m African-American. Stacked on top of that, I\u2019m young. There are several hurdles to overcome.\u201d However, the presence of these two black female judges represents a positive shift in the demographics of judges in Jefferson County. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Shanta Owens and Judge Shera Grant&#8217;s achievements as identical twin judges is a step in the right direction towards increased representation and diversity in the judiciary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Shanta Owens and Judge Shera Grant are not just sisters, but identical twins and the first set of twins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}