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First female (federal judge): Kathryn Sellers (1911) in 1918 [108] First African American female (federal judge): Constance Baker Motley (1946) in 1966 [109] [110] [111] First Italian American female (federal judge): Veronica DiCarlo Wicker [112] First African American female (court of last resort): Julia Cooper Mack (1951) in 1975 [113]
Margaret Brent: first woman to act as an attorney in the United States (1648) Arabella Mansfield: first woman admitted to practice law in the United States (1869) Charlotte E. Ray: First African American female lawyer in the United States and Washington, D.C. (1872) Lyda Conley: First Native American female lawyer in the United States (1902)
Maria M. Cabret: [61] First female of Puerto Rican descent to serve as a Judge of the Territorial Court of the Virgin Islands (1987), Presiding Judge of the Territorial Court (2000-2006), and Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands (c. 2006) Wilma A. Lewis: [62] First female to serve as a District Court Judge for the United States Virgin Islands (2011)
Ellen Ash Peters, who was the first woman to serve as Connecticut's chief justice and wrote the majority opinion in the state Supreme Court's landmark school desegregation ruling in 1996, has died.
She was the first female appointed as a Judge of the Court of Appeal (2008), as well as the first female magistrate appointed as an Ambassador from Barbados. Shirley Bell (1972): [2] First female to serve as a Chief Magistrate in Barbados (1991) Marie McCormack (1971): [42] [43] First female judge (1992) and Judge of the High Court (1995) in ...
Biden has appointed several “first” Black judges across the nation’s district courts and courts of appeals, including Tiffany Cunningham, the first Black judge to serve on the U.S. Court of ...
Christian became the first female Superior Court judge for the Macon Judicial Circuit, which serves Bibb, Peach and Crawford counties, in 1994. She took the bench after Judge Louis Sands, who ...
Jacqueline Grant: [54] First African American female to serve as a resident Superior Court judge in Buncombe County, North Carolina (2021). She was the first African American female to serve as the President of the Buncombe Judicial Bar (2014-2015).