Essence calls Kym Worthy 'the toughest woman in Detroit'

Essence magazine, in step with Time Inc.'s "Assignment: Detroit" project, profiles Kym Worthy and the effect she has had on Detroit.

Excerpt:

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy stalks the conscience of Detroit. A fixture on local television news, she is obsessively deconstructed, idolized, criticized and, above all, feared. When she set her sights on Kwame Kilpatrick, the physically imposing, impossibly charming former Detroit mayor with strong family ties to the city's old political guard, no one could have foreseen just how relentless she could be.

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The perception of Worthy, 53, began to shift once the prosecutor started appearing in the press and on television, promising citizens that no man was bigger than the law. Meanwhile Kilpatrick, 39, who was later charged with assaulting two investigators on his sister's doorstep as they tried to serve an associate with a subpoena, was showing signs that he thought he actually was. Even Kilpatrick's supporters were impressed by Worthy's refusal to flinch. The prosecutor would settle for nothing less than a guilty conviction in the perjury case against Kilpatrick, and she was willing to resist pressure from the most powerful men in Motor City, many of whom tried to persuade her to give the mayor a break.Read the entire article here.