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James Branscome, The Daily Yonder

Jim Branscome was a classmate of Betty Jean Hall at Berea College. He is a retired managing director of Standard & Poor’s and a former journalist whose articles have appeared in the?Washington Post, New York Times, Business Week and?Mountain Eagle?of Whitesburg.

Berea debater, advocate for women coal miners, Betty Jean Hall dies at 78
By: - August 19, 2024

Betty Jean Hall, the young attorney who overcame coal company resistance to hiring women miners in the 1970s and went on to become an important federal administrative law judge overseeing decisions on appeals of workers’ compensation claims, has died.? She was 78 years old. Hall attended Buckhorn School in Perry County in southeastern Kentucky and […]