Judicial Profile
Sep. 19, 2009
Choosing Law
Judge Debra Cole-Hall grew up in Mississippi during the civil rights movement. As she watched African-Americans struggle to vote, her mother admonished her not to 'let other people determine who you are going to be.'
Daily Journal Staff Writer DOWNEY - Debra Cole-Hall lived the first six years of her life in the deep South during the height of the American Civil Rights Movement. She was too young to understand the passion of three young civil-rights workers who spent one summer in her hometown of Meridian, Miss., so they could help black families register to vote - only to die for their efforts. But she took to heart the wisdom of her mo...
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