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Female justices say legal profession is becoming more blind to gender

JACKIE NASH, Daily Reporter Staff Writer

Forty years ago, it was considered unusual for a woman to become a justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. However, women have come a long way in the legal world, according to some female Ohio justices and seeing a woman behind the bench today is not exactly an eye-opener.

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Date Published: March 12, 2010

 

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