Lucy Mae Aspinall, judicial assistant in the Duval County Court from 1969 to 2008, died July 21. She was 91.
In 1969, after her children were grown, Aspinall went to work as Judge McKinney Davis’s secretary in the old county judges court. She later worked at the State Attorney’s Office and then for Circuit Judge Harold Clark until 1985, when she became Duval County Judge Sharon Tanner’s assistant.
Aspinall retired in March 2008. At age 82, she was longest-tenured in the circuit and the oldest judicial assistant in the state.
There were more than 100 people at her retirement party in Courtroom A in the old county courthouse, including former Chief Judge Don Moran, who presented her with a plaque inscribed “On behalf of the entire Fourth Judicial Circuit.”
“She was an institution,” Tanner said last week.
There will be a memorial service at 10 a.m. Thursday at Hardage-Giddens Oaklawn Chapel, 4801 San Jose Blvd.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a donation to the Granville Fire Department, 709 Main Road, Granville, Massachusetts, 01034.
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