Desc: Justice Is a Black Woman: The Life and Work of Constance Baker Motley: Directed by Michael D. Calia. With Drew S. Days, Jack Greenberg, Vernon Jordan, Herbert Wright. The story of the late judge Constance Baker Motley, a New Haven, Connecticut native who worked as a lawyer with the Legal Defense Fund, argued ten cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and was appointed to the Federal bench by President Lyndon Baines Johnson.