Certificates / Diplomas

This collection consists of a small amount of correspondence, certificates and diplomas, and an album of large color photographs titled “This Is Your Life Clarease” and dated April 1, 1994. It also contains framed certificates of recognition or proclamation: a recognition resolution from the Council of the District of Columbia (1990), a certificate from the Commonwealth of Kentucky commissioning her a Kentucky Colonel (1991), and a proclamation of Judge Clarease Rankin Yates Day in the City of Houston (Oct. 27, 2005). Additional large items are the certificate proclaiming YWCA Outstanding Women’s Day, on which Judge Yates is listed as one of ten honorees (June 11, 1992); and a Black History Month poster with calendar for 2000, on which Judge Yates is one of four individuals pictured.