Appellate Court Judge Holder White to replace Garman, become first Black woman on Illinois Supreme Court – CBS2 (Chicago)

Holder White has been a judge at various levels since 2001, when she was sworn in as an associate judge in the state's Sixth Judicial Circuit, which includes Champaign, DeWitt, Douglas, Macon, Moultrie and Piatt counties. In 2008, she became a circuit judge, and in 2013 was sworn in as the first Black justice on the Fourth District Illinois Appellate Court.