Hermine Ricketts

Biography

Hermine E. Ricketts, also known as Hermine Ricketts–Carroll (1956–2019), was a Jamaican-born American architect, activist, and painter. She was active as an architect in South Florida, where she was the only Black female architect in 1992. She and her husband made national news when they had a six-year-long legal battle with the Village Council of Miami Shores to keep a vegetable garden in their front yard.

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