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- 1 2 3 4 State’s First Lesbian Judge to Return to Bench Following Davis Appointment, Metropolitan News-Enterprise (April 4, 2003).
- ↑ Bernstein, Robert A.; DeGeneres, Betty; MacNeil, Robert (25 June 2003). Straight Parents, Gay Children: Keeping Families Together. Da Capo Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-56025-452-2.