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Article: Peggy Ann Quince: Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court.(Interview)
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- Florida Bar Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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As the sun rose at the Virginia Beach shipyard, Solomon Roosevelt Quince, Sr., lit a fire in a barrel to warm his hands before loading cargo onto ships headed out to sea.
The first stevedore to arrive, he was an undereducated civilian working for the Navy, and often the first to be threatened with being laid off during hard economic times.
Struggling to raise all five children himself after the breakup of his marriage, he'd turned down his siblings' offers to take some of his kids.
"No," he insisted. "I want my children to grow up together." It wasn't easy. The Quinces were poor, but blessed with love.
Solomon Quince made sure his ...