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Jet, Jan 28, 2002

With 18,000 members, the Philadelphia Bar Association established a Hall of Fame of 160 all-time-best lawyers. Included in the lineup were Pennsylvania Supreme Court Judge Juanita Kidd Stout, the first Black woman in the rank, Rep. Robert N. C. Nix, A. Leon Higgenbotham, and Raymond Pace Alexander ...

Threatening to bolt the Democrats, Baltimore state senator Clarence Mitchell IV accused the party of supporting an unfair redistricting plan. The 39-year-old legislator is a grandson of the NAACP's Clarence Mitchell ... Former Atlanta administrator Shirley Franklin recently was sworn in after her election as the city's first female mayor, succeeding Bill Campbell ... Baltimore investor Eddie C. Brown and his wife, Sylvia, donated $5 million to improve schools for Black children in two poor communities.

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