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via WKYC:

Judge Jean Murrell Capers, who served on the Cleveland Municipal Court for nine years, has died at the age of 104.

John J. Russo, the court’s current presiding judge, announced her death via a statement Tuesday afternoon.

“On behalf of our Court, we are saddened by the loss of Judge Jean Murrell Capers, but we are honored to have been her colleagues,” Russo said. “She was a pioneer and an inspiration, and Judge Capers will truly be missed.”

Born in Kentucky in 1913, Capers graduated from Cleveland Law School (now Cleveland-Marshall) in 1945. Four years later, she made history as Cleveland’s first African-American woman to be elected to the City Council. She spent much of her tenure fighting racial discrimination in the area.

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