April 21 2006: (ABC News) Nine years after becoming one of the NBA’s first female referees, Violet Palmer is set to break another barrier by becoming the first woman to officiate an NBA playoff game.
For Palmer, 33, working the playoffs is a goal she has been working toward for years.
“I wasn’t sure I could reach it,” Palmer said. “I knew I had the ability but this is the top of the pedestal for me.”
Palmer made her NBA debut on October 31, 1997 when she, along with Denise Kantner, became the first women to referee a regular season game for any all-male professional sports league. They officiated the season opener between the Vancouver Grizzlies and the Dallas Mavericks.
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