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Article: Quince takes court's helm: challenges lawyers to become GALs for foster kids.(Peggy Quince)
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- Florida Bar News
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- July 15, 2008
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When Peggy Quince moved to the center seat on the Florida Supreme Court bench and ceremoniously banged the gavel, the overflow crowd erupted into wild applause--witnessing history in the making.
"Justice Quince, you are a woman of honor. You are making history today as the first African-American female chief justice in the state of Florida," Justice Barbara Pariente said June 27, moments before a small glitch of a missing Bible was solved by borrowing a pocket Bible from a well-wisher in the audience and swearing in her 60-year-old friend as leader of Florida's courts.
"It is fitting that you, with your lifetime of tremendous achievements and dedicated ...