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MOVING AHEAD. . . 

Judge Alice Bonner, Judge of the 80th Civil Judicial Court for the State of Texas, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, where she attended elementary and high school. Mother of three children, Yvonne 11, Bernard 10, LaMonte 5.
  
Received Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Jurisprudence Degrees from Texas Southern University, 1966. Graduate, National Judicial College, American Academy Judicial Education.
  
Admitted to Practice of Law, Texas, May 1967, engaged in Private Practice until 1976. Certified, Board of Specialization, Family Law, State Bar of Texas 1975.
  
Served as Judge, Municipal Court, City of Houston 1974-77.
  
Served as Judge, Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 6, June 1977 until December, 1978. Succeeded herself by election defeating 6 opponents by 70%, and became largest vote getter for Harris County of over 2 1/2 million.
  
Member of many national, local and professional bar associations, former Board of Governors, National Bar Associations. 1974-77, Judicial Council NBA.
  
Organizer of Black Women Law Association, Texas, 1975.
  
Member of many Civic and Social Organizations including Life Member, National Council Negro Women, YWCA.
  
Former legal columnist Forward Times Newspaper, and Co-Host, KYOK Community Talk Show.
  
Served on many Community and United Fund Boards, including presently Urban League, Florence Crittenton Services, Vocational Guidance Services, Sam Houston Area, Boy Scouts of America, District Chairman Explorers; Red Cross; KHUT (Channel 8 Educational Television).
  
Recipient of many Citations, awards and recognitions, as follows: Explorers Division, Sam Houston Area, Boy Scouts; Meritorious Service Awards 1975, 76, 77, 78; Coeettes, Outstanding Service Award, 1975; Barber Memorial Baptist Church, Appreciation Award 1974; Tom Kato Models, Attorney of Year 1974; Elected Silver Anniversary Homecoming Queen, TSU, 1971; Outstanding Alumnus, TSU, 1969; National Council Negro Women, Bethune Achiever, 1975; Black Focus Magazine, Outstanding Community Service 1977; Women's Section, National Bar Association Achievement Award, 1977; Focus Magazine, Cited as Most Influential Black Woman in Houston, 1978; Listed in Various Who's Who Editions; Southern University School of Law; Texas Southern University School of Law, Outstanding Alumni, 1978; and Black Women Lawyers Founder's Award.

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[[caption]] Jeri Warwick-Crisman [[/caption]]

Presented with Honorary Life Memberships as follows: [[?]] Wide Beauticians 1975; Baptist Sisterhood 1975; Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity 1977; and National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women, Inc. 1977.

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[[caption]] Judge Alice Bonner [[/caption]]

Mrs. Jeri Warrick-Crisman, director of National Community Affairs for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), was elected to the board of directors of National Medical Fellowships, Inc., it was announced today by Morton D. Miller, vice chairman. The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, and board chairman of National Medical Fellowships, at the organization's New York Offices. 
  
National Medical Fellowships is the nation's only private agency devoted solely to providing financial assistance to underrepresented minorities in medicine — Blacks, Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and American Indians. In academic year 1977-78, [[?]] awarded 1,345 grants to students in 110 medical schools for a total of $1,314,390.
  
Mrs. Crisman, a native of Gary, Ind., is a graduate of Hampton Institute and has a Masters Degree in Psychology from the University of Chicago. After 10 years as Guidance Counselor in the Gary Public Schools, she joined NBC in 1964 as Broadcast Standards Supervisor at WMAQ-TV, the NBC owned television station in Chicago. While there, she produced Its Academic, a high school quiz show for which she received an Emmy Award.
  
In 1972 she was transferred to the Broadcast Standards Department of WNBC-TV, the NBC owned station in New York, as senior policy editor, a post she retained until she was appointed manager of Community Affairs for WNBC, the NBC owned Radio Station, the following year. In addition to producing the public affairs programs for the station, she was host for the weekly NBC radio program, "The Consumer Gazette of the Air."
  
In 1974 she received the Peabody Award for WNBC's community project, Pledge-A-Job. In March 1975, she was appointed corporate director of NBC's newly established Department of National Community Affairs.
  
She is a board member of the New York Division of the American Cancer Society; a member of the Advisory Board of Executive Women, a national newsletter for women in business; a member of the National Board of Directors of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT); a member of EDGES; and a member of the Doll League of New York. She resides in Stamford, Conn. with her husband, Bruce.


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