Complex sentence: A former teacher and the wife of a dentist, Goggins was also the first black woman to represent the state of South Carolina at the Democratic National Convention in 1972, and the first black woman to serve on the United States Civil Rights Commission.
Split into simpler sentences: A former teacher and the wife of a dentist, in 1972 Goggins was the first black woman to represent the state of South Carolina at the Democratic National Convention. That year she was appointed as the first black woman to serve on the United States Civil Rights Commission.