Frederica Massiah-Jackson

She also graduated from Chestnut Hill College in three years and the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1974 at the age of 23.

[1] Judge Massiah-Jackson presides over medical malpractice and products liability cases, complex commercial litigation and personal injury matters.

Judge Massiah-Jackson was a Lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1992 to 2002, where she taught Legal Studies and Business Law.

These groups charged that she was biased against whites and law enforcement agents, lacked a judicial temperament, and gave extraordinarily lenient sentences.

In 2007, the judge's portrait was presented to the courts and has been hung in the Ceremonial Courtroom of the Philadelphia City Hall.