White Judge Keeps Job After Sending Colleague Racist 'Joke' Showing Black Child Wearing 'My First Ankle Monitor'

A Chicago judge has been reassigned and ordered to undergo implicit bias training after she accidentally sent a meme of a racist "joke" showing a Black child wearing an ankle monitor to a colleague, according to a local judicial watchdog.

Circuit Judge Caroline Glennon-Goodman, 55, sent an image of a toy rendering from "Little Tiks," a play on "Little Tykes," reading "My First Ankle Monitor" and showing a young Black boy and a four-toed foot with an ankle monitor attached to its leg, Injustice Watch reported.

"My husband's idea of Christmas humor," she wrote.

Her husband, Dr. Paul Goodman, is a podiatric foot and ankle surgeon at Illinois Bone & Joint Institute, according to Injustice Watch.

Glennon-Goodman worked as a public defender on homicide cases for more than two decades before becoming a judge in 2024. She ran unopposed in the Democratic Party primary for the 10th Judicial Subcircuit, Patch reported, and was set to serve her first six-year term but has been temporarily removed from her position in the pretrial division and reassigned.

The Judicial Inquiry Board will now determine whether she will be slapped with further sanctions.

In a statement to Injustice Watch, the Cook County Bar Association, the region's largest and oldest professional association of Black lawyers, condemned the circulation of the photo.

"It is our understanding that the photo was meant to be shared with a different audience and that the judge involved has apologized profusely as a result. Nevertheless, such media is inappropriate to share regardless of the intended audience," the Cook County Bar Association, the region's largest and oldest professional association of Black lawyers, wrote in a statement to Injustice Watch. "Discernment and judgment are of utmost importance for the qualifications of a judge. Any judge should be unbiased enough to not further circulate such a racist trope."