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Joan Bernard Armstrong
1941–2018
United States
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Biography
Joan Bernard Armstrong (February 15, 1941 – June 9, 2018) was an African-American judge. In 1974, Armstrong was elected to the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court bench as the first woman and first African-American woman elected judge in the state of Louisiana. Armstrong graduated from Xavier University in 1963.
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