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* The Florence E. Allen Award, given by the New York Women's Bar Association, 1995.
* The Florence E. Allen Award, given by the New York Women's Bar Association, 1995.
* The Presidential Citizens Medal, 2001.
* The Presidential Citizens Medal, 2001.
== African American woman in court ==
Other outstanding African American woman appointed to the federal district court were [[Anna Diggs Taylor]], appointed judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan by President Jimmy Carter, 1979 [http://www.answers.com/topic/anna-diggs-taylor], [[Ann Claire Williams]], first African American woman appointed to the district court in Illinois and in the Seventh Circuit, and [[Norma H. Johnson]], first black woman to lead federal court in nation's capital. (named chief federal judge of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-19681024.html]
== See also ==
== See also ==