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Tania M.L. Saylor: [47] First female of color to serve as a Judge of the Fairfax County Circuity Court (2022) Lee Lovett (1947): [48] [49] First female lawyer in Winchester, Virginia, Frederick County, Virginia; Helivi Holland: [50] First African American female to serve as a General District judge in the 5th Judicial District. In 2024, she ...
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)
She was the first woman on the SCC. After Gerald L. Baliles was elected Governor of Virginia, he appointed Lacy to the Virginia Supreme Court as discussed below. Delegate Theodore V. Morrison Jr., a lawyer from Newport News, Virginia and part-time member of the General Assembly, was nominated and confirmed to succeed her on the SCC.
Douglass enrolled in the American Correspondence School of Law in 1922. She passed the bar examination in 1926, and became the second African American woman admitted to practice law in Virginia, and the first Black female lawyer in Norfolk. [6] [7] [8] After becoming a lawyer, Douglass began working as an attorney in Diggs' law firm. In the ...
In 1991, the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award was established by the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession recognizing and celebrating the accomplishments of women lawyers who have excelled in their field and have paved the way to success for other women lawyers. [22] In 1998, Virginia erected a ...
Patricia Cole Cozzi (1953): [27] First female lawyer in The Bahamas; Stephanie Unwala: [28] First female magistrate in The Bahamas (1977) Janet Bostwick (1971): [29] [30] First female lawyer to become the Attorney General of The Bahamas (1995-2001). She was also the first female to serve as the President of The Bahamas Bar Association (1980).
Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood (October 24, 1830 – May 19, 1917) was an American lawyer, politician, educator, and author who was active in the women's rights and women's suffrage movements. She was one of the first women lawyers in the United States, and in 1879 she became the first woman to be admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme ...
Since 1959, there have been 34 states which have appointed or elected women as attorneys-general. Puerto Rico has had a record four women hold office as attorney general, the most of any U.S. state or territory. Anne X. Alpern of Pennsylvania is the first woman to hold office as the attorney-general of a state. [1]