Cheri Beasley is one of the most prominent legal figures in North Carolina and was the 29th Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. ⁣ ⁣ After 10 years of service on the district court bench, Beasley was elected an associate judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, making her the first African-American woman to win a statewide race without first being appointed to the office. In 2012, Governor Beverly Perdue chose Beasley to fill the vacancy on the North Carolina Supreme Court created by the retirement of Justice Patricia Timmons-Goodson. ⁣ ⁣ At the time of her appointment, Beasley was the sixth woman and only the second African-American woman to serve on the court. Governor Roy Cooper appointed her chief justice in 2019, marking a milestone in the state court’s 200-year history; she is the first African-American woman to preside in that capacity in the Tarheel State, as well as the fourth African-American woman in the United States to lead a state’s highest court. ⁣ ⁣ A...