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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
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