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Denise M. Mercherson

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Denise M. Mercherson is Utah’s first African American female lawyer. Mercherson was raised in the Hyde Park community on the South Side, Chicago. She received her psychology degree from Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota and earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Utah College of Law in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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