Juanita Kidd Stout was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1988–1989, and the first African-American woman elected to any judgeship in the United States and the first to serve on the Supreme Court of any state.
Her early career began as a music teacher.
She might have grown up
poor, but her parents were both teachers, and Judge Stout, who credited
her mother with instilling her lifelong habit of hard work, learned to
read at 3, entered the third grade at 6 and started college at 16, first
at Lincoln University in nearby Missouri and later at the University of
Iowa before returning to Oklahoma as a music teacher. Stout studied at the University of Iowa.
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