Editing Hazel R. O'Leary (section)

==Early life and education==
Hazel Reid was born in [[Newport News, Virginia]]. Her parents, Russel E. Reid and Hazel Reid, were both physicians.<ref name="Harrington, Linda M, No Pie in Sky">{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/05/01/no-pie-in-the-sky/|title=No Pie In The Sky|last=Harringon|first=Linda M.|date=May 1, 1994|work=tribunedigital-chicagotribune|access-date=June 25, 2017|language=en|archive-date=September 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915101732/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-05-01/features/9405010022_1_energy-secretary-pie-utility/2|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of African American History Volume 4|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2009|editor-last=Finkelman|editor-first=Paul|location=Oxford|pages=11}}</ref><ref name="Henneberger, Melinda">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/24/us/ex-official-now-looks-to-church-for-solace.html|title=Ex-Official Now Looks To Church For Solace|last=Henneberger|first=Melinda|date=November 24, 1997|work=The New York Times|access-date=June 22, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=September 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915114136/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/24/us/ex-official-now-looks-to-church-for-solace.html|url-status=live}}</ref> They divorced when she was 18 months old.<ref name="Haywood, Richette">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8_W-QMJlBHIC&q=Max+Robinson&pg=PA98|title=Ebony|last=L. Haywood|first=Richette|date=February 1995|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company |pages=98, 100|language=en}}</ref> Her father and stepmother, a teacher named Mattie Pullman Reid, raised Hazel and her older sister Edna Reid,<ref name="Harrington, Linda M, No Pie in Sky" /><ref name="Haywood, Richette" /> primarily in the [[East End (Newport News, Virginia)|East End neighborhood]].<ref name="=Di Vincenzo 1994">{{cite web |last=Di Vincenzo |first=Mark |title=High Profile: Hazel O'Leary |website=dailypress.com |date=1994-04-04 |url=https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-19940404-1994-04-04-9404040039-story.html |access-date=2020-06-13 |archive-date=2020-06-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613192858/https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-19940404-1994-04-04-9404040039-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Hazel attended school in a segregated school system in Newport News for eight years.<ref name="Harrington, Linda M, No Pie in Sky" /><ref name="Smith, Jessie Carney">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ssMBzqrUpjwC&q=Hazel+O%27Leary+Edna+Reid&pg=PA506|title=Notable Black American Women|last=Smith|first=Jessie Carney|date=1996|publisher=VNR AG|isbn=9780810391772|language=en |pages=506&ndash;507 |access-date=2020-11-11|archive-date=2021-12-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211219222848/https://books.google.com/books?id=ssMBzqrUpjwC&q=Hazel+O%27Leary+Edna+Reid&pg=PA506|url-status=live}}</ref> She and her sister were then sent to live with an aunt in [[Essex County, New Jersey]], and attend Arts High School, an integrated school.<ref name="Harrington, Linda M, No Pie in Sky" /><ref name="Smith, Jessie Carney" /> She earned a bachelor's degree at [[Fisk University]] in [[Nashville]] in 1959.<ref name="Smith, Jessie Carney" /> She then married Carl Rollins and had a son before returning to school and earning her [[Bachelor of Laws]] degree from [[Rutgers Law School]] in Newark in 1966.<ref name="Smith, Jessie Carney" />