What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Intervenors who participated as parties at the courts of appeals should be counted as either appellants or respondents when it can be determined whose position they supported. For example, if there were two plaintiffs who lost in district court, appealed, and were joined by four intervenors who also asked the court of appeals to reverse the district court, the number of appellants should be coded as six.
When coding the detailed nature of participants, use your personal knowledge about the participants, if you are completely confident of the accuracy of your knowledge, even if the specific information is not in the opinion. For example, if "IBM" is listed as the appellant it could be classified as "clearly national or international in scope" even if the opinion did not indicate the scope of the business. 

Your task concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". Your task is to determine the gender of this litigant. Use names to classify the party's sex only if there is little ambiguity (e.g., the sex of "Chris" should be coded as "not ascertained").

Opinion:
Gregory SOLOMON, Patricia Beckwith, Raleigh Brinson, and Earl Jennings, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LIBERTY COUNTY, FLORIDA, Gene Free, Chairman, Commissioner, Joe Burke, Commissioner, James E. Johnson, Commissioner, J.L. Johnson, Commissioner, John T. Sanders, Commissioner, their successors and agents, all in their official capacities, Defendants-Appellees. Gregory SOLOMON, Patricia Beckwith, Raleigh Brinson, and Earl Jennings, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LIBERTY COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD, FLORIDA, Ras Hill, Chairman, Joseph Combs, Tommy Duggar, W.L. Potter, Herbert Whittaker, members of the Liberty County School Board, their successors and agents, all in their official capacities, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 87-3406.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
April 5, 1990.
David M. Lipman, Lipman & Weisberg, Miami, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellants.
Katherine Inglis Butler, University of South Carolina College of Law, Columbia, S.C., for defendants-appellees.
Before TJOFLAT, Chief Judge, FAY, VANCE , KRAVITCH, JOHNSON, HATCHETT, ANDERSON, CLARK, EDMONDSON, and COX, Circuit Judges, and HILL, Senior Circuit Judge.
Honorable Robert S. Vance, Circuit Judge, was a member of the en banc court which heard oral argument, but due to his death on December 16, 1989, did not participate in the disposition of this case.
Honorable James C. Hill, Senior Circuit Judge, has elected to participate in the consideration and disposition of this case. See 28 U.S.C. § 46(c).
PER CURIAM:
We unanimously vacate the district court’s judgment and remand the case for further proceedings in accordance with the Supreme Court’s pronouncement in Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 30, 106 S.Ct. 2752, 92 L.Ed.2d 25 (1986). We hold, as a matter of law, that the appellants have satisfied the three Gingles factors, see post at 1037 (Tjoflat, C.J., specially concurring), 1017 (Kravitch, J., specially concurring), but we are divided on the legal effect of proving those factors. Because we are divided in our interpretation of Gingles and section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (1982), we do not specifically direct the district court on how to proceed on remand. Rather, we instruct the district court to proceed in accordance with Gingles, giving due consideration to the views expressed in Chief Judge Tjoflat’s and Judge Kravitch’s specially concurring opinions. This case is VACATED and REMANDED for further proceedings.
IT IS SO ORDERED.

Question: This question concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". What is the gender of this litigant?Use names to classify the party's sex only if there is little ambiguity.

Choices:
not ascertained
male - indication in opinion (e.g., use of masculine pronoun)
male - assumed because of name
female - indication in opinion of gender
female - assumed because of name

Answer: 2