elected to a judgeship. On November 15, 1959, Stout appeared on the game show What's My Line?. She later was appointed to the Court of Common Pleas, where she specialized in homicide cases. In 1988 she was appointed to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the first African-American woman in the United States to serve on the supreme court of any state. She served for one year before obligatory retirement at age 70. Personal life Stout met her husband, Charles Otis Stout, while attending law school in Indiana. Stout’s husband died in 1988. Stout died in Philadelphia in 1998. Legacy and honors Stout was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 1983. In 2012, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania city courthouse was renamed as the Justice Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice in her honor. See also List of African-American jurists List of first women lawyers and judges in Pennsylvania References External links 1919 births 1998 deaths People from Wewoka, Oklahoma University of Iowa alumni African-American judges Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania 20th-century American judges 20th-century American women judges 20th-century African-American women 20th-century African-American people