 ELLEN MCGIRL: Every time there's a Supreme Court opening for a justice. And I know you're going to be talking on the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Panel. Black women's names come up as a potential replacement. It's always you. It's always Michelle Obama. And then we run out of names. And there are some extraordinary women, Black women in the federal judiciary. But we don't know them. And I'm wondering if you had any idea what is keeping, or if there's-- what are the barriers to keeping Black women jurists from getting the traction they need? ANTA HILL: I think the problem is just like all of those glass ceiling problems that we experience as Black women and women of color generally. We don't have access to the people who are making these decisions. I think our political value is underrated and we're undervalued. I think we are not necessarily even thought of. It's just like those decisions where people pick people who look like them, or who travel in their circles, or who have careers that involve corporate representation. There are some really brilliant Black and Brown women who are judges or who would be judges whose careers have not taken them in the direction of a corporate law firm, and who get overlooked because they didn't follow that path. So there are all sorts of reasons. And I think we need to broaden our scope when we're starting to pick judges at whatever level whether it's the Supreme Court level, the state court level, all of the above need to be considered. And we can say more broadly about who is qualified that we judge. 

Anita Hill discusses Trump’s Supreme Court nomination

And why black women keep getting overlooked.
