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Justice Yvette McGee Brown to speak at NAACP banquet
YOUNGSTOWN
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Yvette McGee Brown will be the keynote speaker for Youngstown NAACP Unit’s 92nd Freedom Fund Banquet on Oct. 14 at Mahoning Country Club, 710 E. Liberty St., Girard.
Justice Brown was the first black elected to the Franklin County Domestic Relations/Juvenile Court.
In January she became the first black woman to serve as a justice on the Ohio Supreme Court.
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Committee members planning this year’s NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet on Oct. 14 at Mahoning Country Club are, from left, Elaine Smith; Juanita Byrd, banquet chairwoman; Atty. Yulanda McCarty-Harris; Atty. Walter T. Madison, Legal Redress Committee chairman; and Steven Mickel, NAACP chapter president.
She also served on Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations and Juvenile Division, and led the creation of the Family Drug Court and the SMART Program, a truancy and educational neglect-intervention program.
She retired from the bench in 2002 to create the Center for Child and Family Advocacy, a child abuse and family violence prevention program, at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and she served as founding president until 2010, when she became a candidate for lieutenant governor. She has become known in her career as an advocate for children and families.
Tickets for the banquet are $40 each or $320 for a reserved table of eight. Anyone wishing to place an ad in the souvenir book and/or the digital souvenir book should submit those by Sept. 30.
For more information, call the NAACP office at 330-782-9777.