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Ione Romeika (1948): [85] [86] First female lawyer in Fayette County, Pennsylvania; Nancy Vernon (1980): [87] First female judge and district attorney in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. She was also the first woman to practice criminal law in the county. [88] Carol Van Horn: [89] First female judge in Franklin County, Pennsylvania (1999)
Rose Danna Ruesch (1935): [72] First female lawyer in Morris County, New Jersey; Katherine Hayden: [73] First female President of the Morris County Bar Association, New Jersey; Marianne Espinosa: [74] First Hispanic American female to serve as a Judge of the Morris-Sussex vicinage; Dorothy Reeve: [75] First female lawyer in Ocean County, New Jersey
New York City: After Brenda Berkman's requests for a firefighting test that was fairer for women were ignored, she filed Brenda Berkman, et al. v. The City of New York and won. [240] A new test was created in which standards were changed so the test was job-related and Brenda with 40 other women passed to enter the fire academy in 1982. [241]
The Frank J. Guarini Justice Complex is a judicial complex under construction in Jersey City, New Jersey, scheduled for completion in 2024.The complex, which will comprise a five-story building, a one-and-a-half-story building, and a six-story parking garage, will be replacing the Hudson County Administration Building that was built in 1957.
1992 – The Year of the Woman: Following 1991 hearings in which lawyer Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, record numbers of women are elected to ...
National Woman's Party (NWP) of New Jersey. [8] New Brunswick Equal Suffrage League. [4] New Jersey Men's League for Equal Suffrage, formed in 1910. [2] New Jersey State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (NJSFCWC). [9] New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA), formed in 1867. [10] Orange Political Study Club (OPSC), created in 1898. [11]
During this year, NJWSA, working with the Jersey City Woman's Club, supported women's right to become lawyers. [61] Their work enabled Mary Philbrook to become the first woman admitted to the New Jersey bar. [61] Later Philbrook became legal counsel to the NJWSA. [61] In September 1897, the effort to pass the school suffrage bill failed. [61]
The North American Phalanx was a secular utopian socialist commune located in Colts Neck Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.The community was the longest-lived of about 30 Fourierist Associations in the United States which emerged during a brief burst of popularity during the decade of the 1840s.