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Civil rights pioneer leaving appellate bench

RICH ADDICKS / raddicks@ajc.com/AJC STAFF

Judge John H. ‘Jack’ Ruffin Jr. – shown with his wife, Judith, after he was sworn in as the state’s first black chief judge of the Court of Appeals in 2005 – is stepping down at 73.

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