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Mary Lilly (1895): [113] First female (a lawyer) elected to the New York State legislature (1918) Geraldine Ferraro (1961): [114] First female (a lawyer) vice presidential candidate for a major U.S. political party (1984) Hillary Clinton (1973): [115] First female (a lawyer) Senator for New York (2000). She would later become the first female U ...
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)
12 years after her admission to the bar, Stoneman went on to study law formally at Albany Law School. [5] While studying law, she continued to teach at the State University of Albany and also clerked for a lawyer in the area. She was the first woman to graduate from Albany Law School in 1898. [6] She maintained a law office in Albany from 1889 ...
1897 – Ethel Benjamin became the first female lawyer in New Zealand and the first to appear as counsel for any case in the British Empire. [10] [11] 1899 – The (American) National Association of Women Lawyers, originally called the Women Lawyers' Club, was founded by a group of 18 women lawyers in New York City. [4]
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. 1869 – Arabella Mansfield became the first female lawyer in the United States when she was admitted to the Iowa ...
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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).
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.