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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Yvette McGee Brown
The Honorable Yvette McGee Brown
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| Other authors / contributors: | Brown, Yvette, 1960- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Columbus, Ohio 2012 April 6.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | State Supreme Court Justice Yvette McGee Brown was born on July 1, 1960 in Columbus Ohio to Sylvia Kendrick. She graduated from Mifflin High School in 1978. McGee earned her B.S. degree in journalism in 1982 from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Three years later, McGee Brown graduated from Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law with her J.D. degree. In 1992, McGee Brown was elected to the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations and Juvenile division. In 2002, she retired from the bench to create the Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Children's Hospital, a multi-disciplinary child abuse and family violence program. McGee Brown became a candidate for lieutenant governor of Ohio, tabbed by then Governor Ted Strickland in 2010. Strickland appointed McGee Brown to the Ohio Supreme Court making her the first African American woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Ohio.
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