It's official: NFL names first full-time female referee

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In a landmark move, the NFL named Sarah Thomas as its first ever permanent female official on Wednesday.

The league announced Thomas's appointment as a line judge along with eight other referees on Wednesday after the Baltimore Sun broke the story that Thomas would get the job last week

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A Mississippi native, Thomas started off judging high school football and worked her way through the ranks, breaking new ground as she went. In 2009, she became the first woman to ever officiate a college bowl game, and in 2011 she was the first to officiate a game in a Big Ten stadium Read more...

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