| Summary: | Obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Juel Pate Borders was born on August 26, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois, to Rev. William Holmes Borders and Julia Elinor Pate. Her father was a civil rights leader and pastor of Wheat Street Baptist Church for more than fifty years, and her mother was an educator. Borders grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1954, Borders earned her B.A. degree from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She went on to the Medical College of Pennsylvania, earning her degree in 1960, with a specialty in obstetrics and gynecology. She did her residency at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1961. She opened her own practice in Atlanta in 1965. Decades later, she earned her M.Div. degree from Emory University in 1992, and served on the ministerial staff of Wheat Street Baptist Church. She was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Black Health Magazine.
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