Justice Teri Jackson of California’s First District Court of Appeal was sitting in her chambers and had taken her robes off, preparing for the next slate of hearings, when a lawyer entered and said to her, “Young lady, go fetch the judge.”

“Here we are in 2020, and it still goes on,” said Jackson, the first African American woman on the appellate court’s bench, at an Association of Business Trial Lawyers event in San Francisco on Tuesday.