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Advancement of Colored Representatives in 1992, Association of Black Women
People (NAACP), Southern becoming the first African- Attorneys.
Christian Leadership American Woman to be
Conference (SCLC), elected to the State House
·Rainbow PUSH Coalition · from a rural district in
Life Member – National Georgia. In 1994, she was
Council of Negro Women · appointed Superior Court
Life Member and American Judge in the Augusta
Business Women’s Judicial Circuit, making her
Association the first African American
Woman Superior Court
Judge to serve in the state
outside Metro-Atlanta. She
practiced in the states of Madelyn Cooper Taylor
Colorado, Florida, and
Georgia and retired as served as Memphis City
Councilwoman and retired
Deputy District Attorney of as Executive Director of the
Fulton County. Currently a
noted activist for social Memphis NAACP after 24
justice in the state of years of institution building
Georgia. Honors include the within the Memphis Branch,
the largest of the 1,600
*Bettieanne Childers awarding of Judge Barbara NAACP chapters
Hart was elected to the Harris Community Service nationwide.
Award by Georgia
Georgia State House of
Entrepreneurs
