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2006 WAVE Award Winners
Roselyne "Cissie" Swig
 Roselyne "Cissie" Swig has devoted decades to philanthropic and community service efforts at the local, national and global levels with the principal focus on women’s and social welfare issues, fine art, political advocacy and education. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton as director of the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies Program. Roselyne is the founder of SF Partners Ending Domestic Abuse. She has served the City and County of San Francisco as a past president of the SF Arts Commission and the SF Library Commission and co-chairperson of the design committee of the Holocaust Memorial in San Francisco.
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Judith Ford
 Judith Ford served as a judge on the Alameda Superior Court for nearly 20 years after a career in computer technology. She was the first African-American woman to become an Alameda County judge, appointed by former Governor Jerry Brown to the Oakland- Piedmont-Emeryville Municipal Court in Alameda County. She served there from 1983 until 1998, and also served
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Maudelle Shirek
 Maudelle Shirek, former Berkeley City Council member and vice mayor, wasthe oldest elected official in California in 1984, at the age of 73, and served eight consecutive terms before retiring at age 89. A granddaughter of slaves, she left her rural Arkansas home for California in the middle of World War II, and before long she was campaigning for fair housing and other civil rights for African Americans. She became a union organizer and an office manager of the Co-op Credit Union, and she helped found two Berkeley senior centers, one of which she still actively oversees.
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