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Peggy Quince

1948–

United States

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Peggy Ann Quince (born January 3, 1948) is an American lawyer who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, having previously served as the 53rd chief justice from July 1, 2008, until June 30, 2010. Quince was the second African American and third woman to serve as chief justice. She had been a justice of the Court since 1999, and was the first African-American woman to sit on the state's highest Court and the third female Justice.

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