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Representatives in 1992, Association of Black Women Entrepreneurs
becoming the first African- Attorneys.

American Woman to be
elected to the State House
from a rural district in

Georgia. In 1994, she was
appointed Superior Court
Judge in the Augusta

Judicial Circuit, making her
the first African American
Woman Superior Court
Judge to serve in the state

outside Metro-Atlanta. She
practiced in the states of
Colorado, Florida, and

Georgia and retired as Madelyn Cooper Taylor *Bertha June "BJ"
Deputy District Attorney of served as Memphis City Hampton Cooper
Fulton County. Currently a Councilwoman and retired became the 1st
noted activist for social as Executive Director of the entrepreneur in the Class of

justice in the state of Memphis NAACP after 24 1969 when a $5,000
Georgia. Honors include the years of institution building investment from her father,
awarding of Judge Barbara within the Memphis Branch, William Hampton enabled

Harris Community Service the largest of the 1,600 her to open Hello Dollies in
Award by Georgia NAACP chapters 1972, the 1st Black owned

nationwide. telephone answering service