EP26: The Law and Leading in Turbulent Times w/ Judge Zina Cruse - a podcast by Geoffrey V. Dudley, Sr., Ph.D., D.Min.

Dr. Dudley sits down with the Honorable Zina R. Cruse.  Many of the gains African Americans made in America has come as a direct result of the groundbreaking leadership and keen legal minds of many African Americans in the legal field. Judge Cruise is cut from that cloth and addresses how the law is one of the most generationally changing areas to exert ones leadership. Judge Cruze skillfully articulates how she became the first African American women appointed to the circuit court in Southern Illinois. Her story is a template to follow to breaking the glass ceiling and leading in any room.  

Guest Bio:

 THE HONORABLE ZINA R. CRUSE 

Judge Zina R. Cruse is a Circuit Judge for the 20th Judicial Circuit Court in the State of Illinois, which includes St. Clair, Randolph, Monroe, Perry and Washington Counties. She is the first African-American woman elected to the Circuit bench in southern Illinois. Prior to becoming a Circuit Judge, Judge Cruse began serving as an Associate Judge in 2009, having previously practiced law in Illinois and Missouri for approximately 15 years. Judge Cruse currently presides over a felony docket. In addition to her full felony docket, she presides over the St. Clair County Mental Health Court and Veterans and Service Members Court and she oversees probationers in the Adult Redeploy program. She was appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court and currently serves on the Special Advisory Committee on Justice and Mental Health Planning. Judge Zina Cruse is the lead judge for Amnesty/Clean Slate Day and the county-wide Expungement & Sealing Summit programs held in St. Clair County, IL.

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