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Mary Lilly (1895): [112] First female (a lawyer) elected to the New York State legislature (1918) Geraldine Ferraro (1961): [113] First female (a lawyer) vice presidential candidate for a major U.S. political party (1984) Hillary Clinton (1973): [114] First female (a lawyer) Senator for New York (2000). She would later become the first female U ...
Kate graduated from Albany Law School of Union University, a private independent law school founded in 1851. She graduated in 1866 and began teaching at the Glens Falls Seminary. She later taught at her alma mater, the Albany Normal School. She was the first female president of their alumni association, and served as Vice-Principal. [2]
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)
After graduating from law school, she began working in the Albany office of Bond, Schoeneck & King. [2] In 1996, Sheehan took a position at Intermagnetics General Corporation in Latham, New York. [4] She helped negotiate the sale of the company to Philips Medical Systems. [2] In 2009, Sheehan was elected City Treasurer of Albany, New York. [5]
Sheila Abdus-Salaam (née Turner; March 14, 1952 – April 12, 2017) [1] was an American lawyer and judge. In 2013, after having served on the New York City Civil Court, the New York Supreme Court, and the Appellate Division, Abdus-Salaam was nominated to the New York Court of Appeals (New York's highest court) and was unanimously confirmed as an Associate Judge by the New York State Senate.
The department was established in 1926–1927 with the original name being Office of mental hygiene; as part of a restructuring of the New York state government, and was given responsibility for people diagnosed with mental retardation, mental illness or epilepsy.
Penney, who identified as a psychiatric survivor, [3] [4] was the first Director of Recipient Affairs at the New York State Office of Mental Health when the position was established in 1992. [5] She was a founding member of the National Association of Consumer/Survivor Mental Health Administrators in 1993. [1]
After a brief time as a social worker, she decided to study law. In 1932, Carter became the first black woman to receive a law degree from Fordham University in New York City (Gray, 2007, n.p). In mid-May 1933, Eunice Carter passed the New York bar exam (Two New York Women, 6). Smith awarded her an honorary doctorate in law in 1938. [4]