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Article: The Daily Record News Briefs: October 14, 2009
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- Daily Record (Rochester, NY)
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- October 14, 2009
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RBBA 'embracing change'
"Yes we can -- and we did," Mavis Thompson, president of the
National Bar Association, said in her keynote address to the
Rochester Black Bar Association during its seventh annual awards and
scholarship dinner Oct. 9.
Speakers cited the election of President Barack Obama, America's
first African-American chief executive, as a moment of historic
change.
The RBBA presented its Pioneer Award to Ursula M Burns, CEO of
Xerox Corp., the first woman of color to head an S&P 100 company.
Xerox attorney Flor M. Colon accepted the award on Burns's behalf.
New York State Court of Appeals Associate Justice Theodore T.
Jones, chairman of the high court's diversity committee, ...