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Justice Juanita Kidd Stout
March 7, 1919 – August 21, 1998
The First African American Woman Elected Judge in the United States and the First African American Woman to Serve on a State Supreme Court.
Attorney. Educator. Appointed by President Kennedy to Special ambassador to the Kenya Independence Celebration and served on the White House Conference on Children and Youth.
More About Justice Juanita Kidd Stout:
- Obituary
- First Black Women Named to State Supreme Court – Philadelphia Daily News January 16, 1988
- Oklahoma Hall of Fame
- “Why Must the Taxpayer Subsidize Immortality?” by Juanita Kidd Stout for Reader’s Digest April 1965
- Oklahoma Historical Society
- Juanita Kidd Stout papers – Library of Congress
- BlackPast
- Wikipedia
