Saturday morning marked the 30th annual African-American Heritage Breakfast hosted by the Modernette’s Civic Club, and it was a packed house as folks gathered to celebrate Black excellence, history and achievement.
Pamela Goodwine has quite the list of accomplishments, serving as a district and circuit judge in Fayette County and serving as the first Black woman to serve on both the Kentucky Court of Appeals and the Kentucky Supreme Court. But earlier in her life, she faced an onslaught of challenges and struggles that might have made another person lay down and call it a day.
Telling her life story Saturday morning, Justice Goodwine says she lost her father to cancer, and then her mother was killed in an act of domestic violence by a family member when she was about 20-years-old. Those losses set her on a path of grief and despair that she says she almost never recovered from, while also battling an unknown illness, but finally she found her way to Macedonia Baptist Church in Lexington…