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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 31 > Carol Jean Vigil, American Indian district judge in New Mexico

Carol Jean Vigil, American Indian district judge in New Mexico

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
March 31, 2009

TESUQUE PUEBLO, N.M. — Carol Jean Vigil, the first American Indian woman to be elected as a state district judge in the United States, has died. She was 61. Vigil died in her sleep Friday at Tesuque Pueblo, her family said.

After passing the bar — the first pueblo Indian....

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