US county judge impresses on defendants they are accountable for their choices

Judith Hawkins

US county judge in Tallahassee, Florida, Judith Hawkins, had many firsts when she became a judge in 1996 as she was the first African-American in the Second Judicial Circuit elected in a contested election, the first African-American county judge and the first African-American female county judge.

But at age fifty when she decided to become a travelling evangelist she may