Q&A JUDGE ROBIN RANSOM

earned her law degree—and even longer before she made history as the first Black woman appointed to the Missouri Supreme Court—she was an 11-year-old at a bus stop in Fairground Park. That summer, Ransom’s father, Levert, enrolled her in a bowling league in South City. To get there, Ransom had to take two connecting buses to an unfamiliar—and predominantly white—part of town. Levert thought that i his youngest daughter could survive a summer spent