There was a time when Eva Paterson would take a seat alongside other lawyers in the jury box in federal court, waiting for cases to be called, and face questions like, Who was she? Was she a defendant?

As a young, black woman starting out in the late ’70s, Paterson was a rarity in her profession. But in those same federal courtrooms she would fight — and win — major battles on behalf of women and people of color.

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