Associated PressDecember 14, 2015
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Leander Shaw, who served as the Florida Supreme Court’s first African-American chief justice, died Monday after a lengthy illness, the court announced. He was 85. Shaw was appointed to the court in 1983 by then-Gov. Bob Graham, and he retired in 2003, the court said in a news release. He served as chief justice from 1990 […]