Shirley Henderson, a legal affairs writer, joined the ABA Journal staff in 2016 as an assistant copy editor. She previously worked for the Chicago Tribune, Ebony magazine and Microsoft. Henderson has a BA in journalism from Columbia College Chicago.
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