Florida Justice to speak at Bethune Cookman University AKA Celebration

Photo: Honorable Peggy A. Quince, Florida Supreme Court Justice

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- Florida Supreme Court Justice Peggy A. Quince is the scheduled speaker Sunday at Bethune-Cookman University for a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

Appointed in 1999, Quince is the first black woman to serve on the state's highest court and the third female justice in the court's history. She is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha. Howard University is also where the sorority was established June 15, 1908.

The Centennial Founders' Day celebration begins at 3 p.m. at the Center for Civic Engagement. Sunday's program is free and open to the public. Alpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek-letter organization established by black college-trained women. The sorority has more than 49,000 active members.

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Justice Peggy A. Quince was born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1948. She is married to Fred L. Buckine, attorney at law, and they have two daughters, Peggy LaVerne, a graduate of Florida A & M University, and Laura LaVerne, a graduate of the University of Central Florida. Justice Quince graduated in 1970 from Howard University with a B.S. Degree in Zoology; she received her J.D. Degree from the Catholic University of America in 1975.

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