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Peggy Gail Fleming is an American figure skater. She is the 1968 Olympic Champion in Ladies' singles and a three-time World Champion . Fleming has... been a television commentator on figure skating for over 20 years, including several Winter Olympic Games. Fleming was born in San Jose, California, the daughter of Doris Elizabeth and Albert Eugene Fleming, a newspaper journalist. She began skating at age nine when her family moved to Cleveland and soon began skating in earnest on the advice of her father. In 1961, when Fleming was twelve years old, her coach William Kipp was killed in the crash of Sabena Flight 548 along with the rest of the United States figure skating team while on route to the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships. Fleming was subsequently coached by Carlo Fassi. Her unusual style led to five U.S. titles, three World titles and the gold medal in the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble, France. Her award in Grenoble was singularly important for the American athletes and the nation as a whole, for this was the only gold medal that the U.S. Olympic team won in the 1968 Winter Games.
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Michael Angel Nava is an attorney and writer. He is a third-generation Californian of Mexican descent. He was born and raised in Sacramento. He was... the first member of his family to attend college, graduating with honors from the Colorado College in 1976. He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1981. In 2002, he was also awarded an honorary degree as a Doctor of Humane Arts from the Colorado College in recognition of his literary achievements. He began his legal career as a trial lawyer in the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office where he prosecuted criminal cases and did approximately 50 jury trials. He was an associate at the appellate boutique firm of Horvitz and Levy before becoming a judicial staff attorney for the Honorable Arleigh Woods, the first female African-American appellate court justice in California. He served in that capacity from 1986 to 1995. Among the notable cases he worked on was Jasperson v. Jessica’s Nail Clinic, the first published decision to uphold an HIV/AIDS anti-discrimination statute.
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