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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.
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)
The award is named in honor of Clara Shortridge Foltz, the first female member of the bar on the West Coast and the founder of the first public defender office in the United States. Sturgill ...
Clara Harter. December 19, 2024 at 7:44 AM. Danny Masterson arrives at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles on May 31, 2023. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
Maria Guadalupe Evangelina Lopez, president of the College Equal Suffrage League, served as a Spanish translator for the movement. [25] She also was the first woman to give a speech in Spanish in support of women's suffrage. During this time she was also involved in the Votes for Women club along with Clara Shortridge Folz. [25]
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 ...
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