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First female (Twenty-Fifth Judicial District): Virginia Anita Filson in 2001 [22] First Hispanic American (female): Uley Norris Damiani in 2009 [23] First African American female (Virginia Supreme Court): Cleo Powell (1982) in 2011 [24] [25] First female (Chief Justice; Virginia Supreme Court): Cynthia D. Kinser in 2011 [26]
In 2021, Earle-Sears was elected lieutenant governor of Virginia. Earle-Sears is a candidate for the 2025 Virginia gubernatorial election. Earle-Sears is the first woman to serve as lieutenant governor of Virginia and is the first woman of color and first Jamaican-born American citizen elected to statewide office in Virginia. [2] [3]
She was the first woman on the SCC. After Gerald L. Baliles was elected Governor of Virginia, he appointed Lacy to the Virginia Supreme Court as discussed below. Delegate Theodore V. Morrison Jr., a lawyer from Newport News, Virginia and part-time member of the General Assembly, was nominated and confirmed to succeed her on the SCC.
EXCLUSIVE: Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears of Virginia could make history next year as the nation's first Black woman to win election as a governor. She would also make history as Virginia's ...
Republican Winsome Sears, who returned to Virginia politics after an absence of nearly two decades, has become the first female lieutenant governor and the first woman of color to win statewide ...
She was elected attorney general in 1985 and reelected in 1989, becoming the first woman elected to statewide office in Virginia, the second woman to serve as attorney general of any U.S. state, and the first non-federal elected official in Virginia to garner more than one million votes in a single election. [5]
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)
Challenging the primary results, she has described herself as “Trump in heels.” ... She has previously run for Congress and governor of Virginia and was censured by the Virginia Senate in 2021 ...