Editing Markie Post (section)

==Early life==
Post was born in [[Palo Alto, California]], on November 4, 1950.<ref>{{Cite news |title=The Almanac |date=November 4, 2009 |agency=United Press International|url=http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/04/The-almanac/UPI-88221225787400/}}</ref><ref name="NYT obit">{{cite news |last=Vigdor |first=Neil |date=August 8, 2021 |title=Markie Post, 'Night Court' Actress, Dies at 70 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/08/arts/television/markie-post-dead.html |access-date=September 15, 2023}}</ref> Her father, [[Richard F. Post]], worked as a physicist; her mother, Marylee (Armstrong) Post, was a poet.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oIS-OkQPkjUC&q=Richard+Freeman+Post+1918+marylee|title=The Historical Volume and Reference Works, Los Angeles County|last1=Studer|first1=Robert Paul|year=1962}}</ref> The second of the couple's three children, she and her two siblings were raised in [[Stanford, California|Stanford]] and [[Walnut Creek, California|Walnut Creek]]. She attended [[Las Lomas High School]] where she was a cheerleader. Post then attended [[Lewis & Clark College]] in [[Portland, Oregon]], and briefly attended [[Pomona College]] in California before returning to Lewis & Clark to earn her Bachelor of Arts degree.<ref name="People">{{cite web |last1=Grant |first1=James |title=Though She Plays a Lawyer on Night Court, Markie Post Can't Help Feeling Guilty |url=https://people.com/archive/though-she-plays-a-lawyer-on-night-court-markie-post-cant-help-feeling-guilty-vol-25-no-9/ |website=People |access-date=February 18, 2022 |language=en}}</ref>