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3 unusual facts about Mildred Lillie


Ida Grove, Iowa

Mildred Lillie, California Court of Appeal Presiding Justice and Richard Nixon's choice for the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court (nomination withdrawn)

Mildred Lillie

Nixon was shortly afterward faced with two new vacancies on the high bench due to the retirements of John Marshall Harlan and Hugo Black in 1971.

Lille was born in Ida Grove, Iowa, but moved with her mother to California's San Joaquin Valley as a child following her parent's failed marriage.



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