From: Tampa Bay Times
![Retired Hillsborough Circuit Judge Charlotte Anderson, left, appears with Ms. magazine founder, author and activist Gloria Steinem in 2015 at the first Helen Gordon Davis Waves of Change Luncheon at the Crowne Plaza Tampa Westshore. Anderson, who helped create a division dedicated solely to victims of domestic violence, died last month at the age of 72. [JAMES BORCHUCK | TIMES]](http://cars.tampabay.com/resources/images/dti/rendered/2016/06/4stb_anderson060416_17337576_8col.jpg)
Retired Hillsborough Circuit Judge Charlotte
Anderson, left, appears with Ms. magazine founder, author and activist
Gloria Steinem in 2015 at the first Helen Gordon Davis Waves of Change
Luncheon at the Crowne Plaza Tampa Westshore. Anderson, who helped
create a division dedicated solely to victims of domestic violence, died
last month at the age of 72. [JAMES BORCHUCK | TIMES]
TAMPA — Charlotte Anderson, a former
Hillsborough County judge who helped create a division dedicated solely
to victims of domestic violence, died last month at age 72.
Elected to the bench in 1994, Ms. Anderson presided over domestic
violence cases, as well as run-of-the-mill civil suits, for 15 years.
She was well-known as a champion of many causes, from women's rights to
antidiscrimination protections for gays and lesbians, and a fixture in
local Democratic Party politics.
"She was a real pioneer as a woman's activist," said Nadine Smith,
CEO of Equality Florida, an LGBT advocacy group. "To have somebody of
her profile be visibly supporting our work at a time when there weren't a
whole lot of people racing to stand up really mattered." MORE
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