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Missouri History Today September 3, 1987: Ann Covington Shatters Glass Ceiling

Jan 28

Two years ago today, Robin Ransom broke the color barrier, becoming Missouri’s first black female Supreme Court judge. Ransom earned her Juris Doctorate in 1991 from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, and a Bachelor of arts, political science and sociology in 1988 from Douglass College–Rutgers University in New Jersey.  Her law career includes …

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