October 7, 2019
Burnita Shelton Matthews Photo by Beverly Kraft
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Copiah County Native Honored as First Woman in U.S. to Serve as Federal Trial Judge
Burnita Shelton Matthews' brothers were lawyers, but her father wanted her to be a musician. There were no women lawyers or judges in Copiah County, or in Mississippi 100 years …
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