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Clara Shortridge Foltz (July 16, 1849 – September 2, 1934) was an American lawyer, the first female lawyer on the West Coast, and the pioneer of the idea of the public defender. The Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles was renamed after her in 2002, and is now known as the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center .
The project started with a single biography - that of Clara S. Foltz, the first woman lawyer in California.In the course of writing her life, Foltz's biographer, Professor Barbara Babcock, has compiled a wealth of information about her subject and the times in which she lived, and most particularly, the other women lawyers she knew.
See Law school in the United States. Lawyers. First female to act as an attorney: Margaret Brent in 1648 [1] ... First female: Clara Shortridge Foltz (1878) in 1910 [97]
Clara Shortridge Foltz (1878): [2] First female lawyer in Santa Clara County, California; Isabel Charles: [234] [265] First female Justice of the Peace in Santa Clara County, California (1917) Miriam E. Wolff (1940): [266] First female appointed as a municipal court judge in Santa Clara County, California (1975)
Nov. 9—COLUMBUS — Allen County Public Defender Kenneth Sturgill has been named the recipient of the Clara Shortridge Foltz Award for his significant impact and superior contributions to ...
Babcock was known nationwide for her research on the history of women in the legal profession and, in particular, for her biography of California's first woman lawyer and founder of the public defender, Clara Shortridge Foltz (Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz, Stanford University Press, 2011). [7]
Actor Danny Masterson arrives at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles on May 31, 2023, with then-wife Bijou Phillips for his retrial for allegedly raping three women ...
A California judge accused of fatally shooting his wife during an argument while he was drunk has claimed her killing was an accident.. Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson is free ...