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Lake County Judge Diane Boswell, 72, dies after short illness: ‘Everybody who knew her is extremely shocked right now’

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Posted October 19, 2021

Barbara Bolling-Williams, the president of the Indiana chapter of the NAACP, said the one time she voted Republican was when Boswell, a legacy Republican, ran for Gary mayor decades ago.

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