Other speakers included Charles Chestnut III, who worked with Higgins on the Alachua County branch NAACP Youth Council in the early 1960s, and Alachua County Clerk of the Court J.K. “Jess ...

Barbara L. Higgins was the first Black woman to work professionally in the Alachua County Courthouse. She was a devoted member and leader at the Springhill Missionary Baptist Church for 60 years.