Pennsylvania’s overwhelmingly white appellate court system saw a missed opportunity to add racial diversity to its highest court, despite having three openings and two experienced, black judicial candidates in the recent primary election.
About 21 percent of the state’s population identifies as a minority race, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But there are only white justices sitting on the Supreme Court, and only one appellate court judge out of 37 in the state belongs to a minority—Superior Court Judge Cheryl Lynn Allen.
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