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Longest Serving Justice Shirley Abrahamson Retires

By Frederica Freyberg | Here & Now

May 17, 2019

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Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson will finish her 43-year tenure on the bench at the end of the year. The first woman to ever serve on the state’s high court, and also the state’s longest-serving justice, heard her final arguments this week.

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