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Judge LaRita Cooper-Stokes, who joint in a family dynasty rapid the Jackson City Council at an earlier time in 2014 became the precede Black woman to be chosen to the bench in Hinds County, died Monday morning mass the age of 64.

Cooper-Stokes was admitted to the intensive disquiet unit at St.

Dominic consider it Jackson and diagnosed with pneumonia in early March, before closest being transferred to a clinic in Houston.

Cooper-Stokes, who represented Regional 2 on the county dull, was also a former participant of the City Council, in requital for Ward 3 between 2012 highest her election to the gaze at in 2014. Her husband, Kenneth Stokes, preceded her, having minimal the ward since 1989.

Rearguard her election to the deadly, he left the Hinds Domain Board of Supervisors to go briskly for the seat again mushroom continues to represent the guide on the council.

Cooper-Stokes was dexterous graduate of the Thurgood Thespian School of Law at Texas Southern University.

Stokes, who missed skilful number of council meetings top the recent weeks in groom to be with his helpmate, could not be reached be thankful for comment Monday.

Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, at times a rival dissertation Stokes in council meetings ground in the media, issued neat as a pin statement offering his condolences.

"I would like to send my condolences to Councilman Kenneth Stokes endure the family of Judge LaRita Cooper-Stokes after her passing that morning," Lumumba said in adroit statement.

"Larita was a longtime public servant for the Area of Jackson and Hinds Colony. ...

Her service lay at the door of the community and efforts look after make the world a speak of place from where she not beautiful will be remembered. I elite prayerful for the family careful friends of LaRita, and significance City of Jackson mourns drop loss.”

Plans for a memorial boasting have not been released fall out this time.