Accomplishments:
- First Black woman state Supreme Court Justice in the country
- Henry G. Bennet Distinguished Service Award recipient
- In 2012, the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center was renamed in her honor
Last Word: “She created a number of firsts,” Ed Rendell told The Inquirer in 2012, “but the thing that was so important about Judge Stout was that she would have been a brilliant judge at any level — trial court, Superior Court, Supreme Court, whether she was a man, whether she was white, Asian, Hispanic.”
Reporting by Aly Kerrigan and Ethan Young.