Kentucky

From Bluegrass Politics Blog at Herald Leader:

Bust of McAnulty unveiled Thursday

By Beth Musgrave on Steve Beshear

By Beth Musgrave - bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT ? A bust of the state?s first black Supreme Court justice was unveiled Thursday as part of a Black History Month celebration. The bust of the late Justice William E. McAnulty is the first sculpture of a black public official in the Kentucky Capitol. The sculpture will be housed on the second floor in the entryway to the Supreme Court chambers. Gov. Steve Beshear, legislative leaders and Chief Supreme Court Justice John D. Minton paid tribute to McAnulty during a Capitol Rotunda ceremony. The Louisville lawyer became the state?s first black judge on the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1988 and was the first black person to serve on the state?s highest court when he was appointed to an open position in June 2006. He was later elected to the seat for a full-eight year term but died from cancer in 2007.