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Gammiel Poindexter: [40] First African American (female) judge in the Sixth Judicial District (Brunswick County, et al.; 1995) Tania M.L. Saylor: [48] First female of color to serve as a Judge of the Fairfax County Circuity Court (2022) Lee Lovett (1947): [49] [50] First female lawyer in Winchester, Virginia, Frederick County, Virginia
On June 16, 2021, the United States Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 57–41 vote. [14] Her nomination was confirmed later that day by a 59–39 vote. [15] She received her judicial commission on July 20, 2021. [8] She was sworn in on July 23, 2021. [16] She is the first woman of color to serve as a judge on the district court in ...
The first female U.S. senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton, represented Georgia for a single day in 1922, and the first woman elected to the Senate, Hattie Caraway, was elected from Arkansas in 1932. As of January 2025, 64 women have served in the upper house of the United States Congress , of which 26 (16 Democrats and 10 Republicans) are currently ...
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)
Monroe County Court Judge Meredith Vacca on Wednesday became the first woman of color and the first Asian-American to become a federal judge in western New York.. The Senate Wednesday confirmed ...
April 7, 2022, marked a historic day in the Senate and in the United States as Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court.
Virginia voters overwhelmingly ratified that document the following year, except for certain provisions penalizing former Confederates, which failed. The Constitution of 1864 had ended popular election of judges, instead providing (for the first time) that the General Assembly would elect the judges from candidates nominated by the Governor. [37]
One such woman was Mary O'Toole, who became the first woman municipal judge of the United States, when she was appointed Judge of the Municipal Court of Washington, D.C. by President Harding in 1921. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 1925, the first female lawyer in California, Clara Shortridge Foltz , was considered for a federal judgeship at the age of 76.