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American basketball referee (born 1964)

Violet Renice Palmer (born July 20, 1964) is a retired American basketball referee in the NBA and WNBA^[1] and the first female official to reach the highest competitive tier in any major U.S.

professional sports league. She also earned recognition as a member of two NCAA Division II women's championship basketball teams.

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In , Palmer began training as an official for the NBA. In , Palmer officiated the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) championship during the.

In the NBA, Palmer wore uniform number She retired in ^ "NBA ref Violet Palmer to marry longtime partner".

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Palmer was the first woman to officiate an NBA playoff game when she did so in the April 25, 2006 match between the Indiana Pacers and New Jersey Nets. In the NBA, Palmer wore uniform number 12.^[2] She retired in 2016.

Biography

Violet Palmer was born July 20, 1964 in Lynwood, California.^[3] She was raised in Compton, California, and grew up in the same neighborhood where Serena and Venus Williams lived as small children.

She graduated from Compton High School, and attended college at Cal Poly Pomona.^[3][4] While at Cal Poly, she played point guard on t