Leander Jerry Shaw Jr. is recognized as being the first black to serve as Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court in 1990. He was Chief Justice from 1990 to 1992. Shaw was born in Salem, Virginia, he went to Lylburn Downing School in Lexington, Virginia. He graduated from West Virginia State University in 1952. […]
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