Delaware Courts, Touting Diversity Progress, See Long Road Ahead

Delaware’s judiciary has taken tangible steps toward diversifying the state’s mostly White, male legal community since 2022, but there’s a long way to go, the state’s top court said in a report issued Monday.

The Delaware Supreme Court report reviews the first two years of the Delaware Bench & Bar Diversity Project, which launched two years ago with a paper laying out a “strategic plan” for increasing bench and bar diversity.

The state “has made great strides in the past two years to implement the recommendations,” but “our work is just getting started,” the report said.

Delaware’s Chancery Court, the ...