Edna G. Parker
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Edna G. Parker | |
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| Born | October 30, 1930 Meadow, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | November 12, 1996 (aged 66) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Spouse | Jack Goldberg (divorced) |
| Children | 1 |
Edna Gaynell Parker (October 30, 1930[1] – November 12, 1996) was a judge of the United States Tax Court from 1980 to 1995.
Born in Meadow, Johnston County, North Carolina, Parker came to Washington, D.C. as a child, and graduated from Eastern High School.[2][3]
After attending the New Jersey College for Women (later Douglass Residential College), she received a B.A. with honors from the University of Arizona in 1953. She then attended the University of Arizona College of Law before receiving an LL.B. from the George Washington University Law School in 1957, where she was on the law review, and inducted into the Order of the Coif.[3][2] She then served as a law clerk to Judge J. Warren Madden and Chief Judge Marvin Jones of the United States Court of Claims from 1957 to 1959.[3][2]
