Real Washington – Her Honor: My Life on the Bench…What Works, What’s Broken, and How to Change It: Retired Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell with Host Richard Levick of LEVICK

Retired Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, the first African American woman jurist in Northern California, joins cohosts Richard Levick of LEVICK and Michael Zeldin of That Said with Michael Zeldin and a former CNN Legal Analysist to discuss her new book, Her Honor: My Life on the Bench…What Works, What’s Broken, and How to Change It. On the show as in her book she provides a rare and thought-provoking insider account of our legal system and reveals the strengths, flaws and much-needed changes required within our courts. She suggests that we provide our judges with better training in their respective disciplines; identifies needed changes in juvenile justice; the impact of racism in law enforcement and the courts; the importance of judicial appointments versus elections; the criticality of diversity on the bench and her view of today’s U.S. Supreme Court.