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First female (Twenty-Fifth Judicial District): Virginia Anita Filson in 2001 [22] First Hispanic American (female): Uley Norris Damiani in 2009 [23] First African American female (Virginia Supreme Court): Cleo Powell (1982) in 2011 [24] [25] First female (Chief Justice; Virginia Supreme Court): Cynthia D. Kinser in 2011 [26]
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)
This is a short timeline of women lawyers in the United States. Much more information on the subject can be found at: List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States. 1869 - Lemma Barkaloo became the first woman in America admitted to law school at Washington University in St. Louis.
1870 – Ada Kepley became the first woman to graduate from law school in the United States; she graduated from Chicago University Law School, predecessor to Union College of Law, later known as Northwestern University School of Law. [3] 1872 – Charlotte E. Ray became the first African-American female lawyer in the United States. [4]
She took the exam and passed, becoming the first licensed female lawyer in the United States. [1] However, just 6 years later, in 1875, the Wisconsin Supreme Court denied Lavinia Goodell admission to the state bar on the grounds that "[n]ature has tempered woman as little for the juridical conflicts of the court room, as for the physical ...
Janet Wood Reno (July 21, 1938 – November 7, 2016) was an American lawyer and public official who served as the first female and 78th United States attorney general. Reno, a member of the Democratic Party , held the position from 1993 to 2001, making her the second-longest serving attorney general, behind only William Wirt .
Paz y Paz was the first female Attorney General in Guatemala. She made history by prosecuting a head of state for genocide in national court and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. 8.
Gerty Archimede (1939): [135] [136] [137] First female lawyer in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin) Andrée Pierre-Rose Bocaly (1945): [198] [199] First female lawyer to actually practice in Martinique; Thérèse Yoyo-Likao: [200] [201] First female elected as the Bâtonnière du Barreau de la ...