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Julia Cooper Mack

1920–2014

United States

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Julia Cooper Mack (née Perry; July 17, 1920 – January 17, 2014) was a judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. She was appointed to this position in 1975. She was the first African American woman appointed to a court of last resort in the United States.

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