Starting Tuesday, visitors to the Clyde S. Cahill Courthouse in downtown St. Louis will have the chance to learn about pioneering judges, including Cahill himself.

The St. Louis Law Library, on the courthouse’s 13th floor, will host “Honoring Trailblazers in our Courts.” It is based on oral histories collected by the Judicial Legacy Project, spearheaded by Associate Circuit Judge Nicole Colbert-Botchway of the 22nd Circuit.

Colbert-Botchway had done an oral history of civil rights stalwart Frankie Muse Freeman for the American Bar Association. During her work on that project, she met U.S. District Judge Richard Webber, who had started collecting interviews with retired federal judges.

She was inspired to do the same for state court judges.

“Since 1995, I've been appearing in this c

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