Joan Bernard Armstrong (February 15, 1941 – June 9, 2018) was an African-American judge.
Armstrong was known as "the first woman elected to serve as a judge in
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
and first African-American to serve as chief judge of the state's Fourth
Circuit Courts of Appeal. She was born and died in
."
Joan Bernard Armstrong, 1st female judge in Louisiana, dies at 77
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1941 births
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