Sweet Justice
Sweet Justice is an American legal drama television series created by John Romano and starring Cicely Tyson and Melissa Gilbert. The hour-long series ran from September 15, 1994 to April 22, 1995 on NBC. The series was produced by Trotwood Productions in association with Columbia Pictures Television.Premise
Attorney Kate Delacroy returns to New Orleans from Wall Street for her sister's engagement party and decides to stay. Instead of joining the prestigious law firm headed by her arch conservative father, James-Lee, she joins forces with old civil rights warrior Carrie Grace Battle in Battle-Ross & Associates, the better to take on cases of women's rights, minority rights, and everyone else's rights.Cast and characters
- Melissa Gilbert as Kate Delacroy, a novice Wall Street attorney
- Greg Germann as Andy Del Sarto, a passionate upstate attorney
- Cicely Tyson as Carrie Grace Battle, a feminist, civil rights lawyer and senior partner of a New Orleans law firm
- Ronny Cox as James Lee Delacroy, Kate's father, a senior partner in the town's old-money-and-big business law firm
- Jason Gedrick as Bailey Connors, Kate's high school sweetheart, a journalist
- Cree Summer as Reese Daulkins, an energetic attorney and single mother
- Jim Antonio as Ross A. Ross
- Megan Gallivan as Anne Delacroy-Foley
- Scott Paetty as Harry Foley
- Marcia Strassman as Althea "Bunny" McClure
- John Allen Nelson as Logan Wright
- Michael Warren as Michael "T-Dog" Turner'''
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Awards and nominations
Tyson was nominated for an Emmy and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role on the series.
