Hermine E. Ricketts

Hermine E. Ricketts, also known as Hermine Ricketts–Carroll (1956–2019), was a Jamaican-born American architect, activist, and painter. She was active as an architect in South Florida, where she was the only Black female architect in 1992.

Ricketts was the founder president in 1986 of HER Architects, Inc., located in Coral Gables, Florida. Her architecture work was acknowledged in The New York Times, and Ebony magazine, where she was named a "top women architect" in the 1990s. In 1992, Ricketts was the only Black female architect in South Florida. Starting in 2013, the village of Miami Shores banned growing vegetable gardens in front yards, which became punishable by a daily fine of US$50 because they were "unsightly and violated zoning codes". For 20 years, Ricketts had maintained a vegetable garden in her front yard. Not long after the Florida legislature passed a law making front yard gardening legal, Ricketts died on August 24, 2019, after a struggle with illness she believed was due to the stress of the legal fight.

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