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Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke
Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke was one of the first five African American undergraduates admitted to Duke University in 1963.
Early life.
Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke was born as Wilhelmina Reuben in South Carolina. She is the oldest of six children. Her father, Odell Reuben, served as President of Morris College, where her mother was also a professor.
Education.
Reuben-Cooke was one of the admitted to Duke University in the fall semester of 1963, along with Mary Mitchell Harris,
chief prosecutor of the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Navy
- C. Allen Parker, presiding partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore
- Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke (A.B. 1967), professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia, one of the first five African American undergraduates admitted to Duke in 1963
- Russell M. Robinson, II (LL.B. 1956), founding partner of Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A.
- Eric Rothschild (A.B. 1989), lead attorney for Kitzmiller v.