Margaret Jessee Warren (

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, 9 November 1921 –

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, 27 July 2001) was an American

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and a

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. In 1938, Jessee won the National 18 and Under doubles title and reached the final in singles, and reached the singles final at

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, before falling to Virginia Hollinger, 6–2, 6–3. She also won two California State singles titles and two State doubles titles during her career. Jessee graduated from the

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in 1943 and married James Cleveland Warren, oldest son of then-California Governor

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and later Supreme Court justice. In 1989, her children established a tennis scholarship in her name at UC Berkeley.

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