Update: Due to inclement weather, the 2013 Thurgood Marshall Program
has been cancelled. Please visit the display in the Law Library to view
resources related to the cancelled presentation.
On Thursday, April 11th at noon, the Honorable Romonda D. Belcher, Iowa
District Court Judge, will present the keynote address for the 2013
Thurgood Marshall Program, hosted by the Black Law Students'
Association, in the University of South Dakota School of Law Courtroom.
Judge Belcher, a native of Plymouth, North Carolina, received her B.A.
from Howard University in 1990 and her J.D. from Drake University Law
School in 1995. From 1995 to 2010, she was an Assistant County Attorney
for Polk County Iowa. In August 2010, she was appointed as an Iowa
District Associate Judge. Judge Belcher's presentation is entitled "The
Making of Justice Thurgood Marshall: A Road Paved by Racial
Discrimination."
The most recent display in the McKusick Law Library highlights resources
related to Judge Belcher's presentation. It contains Judge Belcher's
full biography and her portrait, as well as biographies of Thurgood
Marshall and a book about Justice Marshall's most celebrated case, Brown v. Board of Education.
An excerpt from the brief filed by Justice Marshall's team in that case
also is included in the display. Briefs filed in United States Supreme
Court cases may be found at Lexis.com (log in required) Lexis.com >Legal>Cases-U.S.>U.S.Supreme Court Briefs and WestlawNext (log in required) >Briefs>Federal>U.S. Supreme Court>Briefs>Advanced Search.
(This entry was originally written and posted by Marsha Stacey)
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