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Gammiel Poindexter: [40] First African American (female) judge in the Sixth Judicial District (Brunswick County, et al.; 1995) Tania M.L. Saylor: [48] First female of color to serve as a Judge of the Fairfax County Circuity Court (2022) Lee Lovett (1947): [49] [50] First female lawyer in Winchester, Virginia, Frederick County, Virginia
Elizabeth Bermingham Lacy (born January 12, 1945) is a Virginia jurist. She was the first woman named to the Virginia State Corporation Commission and later was the first woman named to be a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, where she served until her retirement in 2007.
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)
In 1985, she was elected as one of the first ten judges of the newly created Court of Appeals of Virginia, making her the first woman to serve as a state appellate court judge in Virginia. [3] She is the first woman to serve on all levels of the Virginia court system. [5] In 2011, she wrote the foreword to the first volume of Jurist Prudent ...
She was the first female federal judge in Virginia. [2] Smith served as Chief Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia and from December 4, 2011 until December 4, 2018. Smith assumed senior status on August 1, 2019.
In 2008, Azcarate was elected by the General Assembly to serve on Virginia's General District Court Bench. Her election was historic as she was the first woman to hold this position. [6] While a judge, Azcarate observed a high number of veterans developing criminal records as a result of PTSD. In 2014, she introduced a plan to create a special ...
(Bloomberg) -- Liberian President George Weah named Sie-A-Nyene Gyapay Yuoh as Chief Justice of the West African nation’s top court, the first woman in the role since 2003.Most Read from ...
This is a list of past and present judges of the Supreme Court of Virginia. The court's name was the Supreme Court of Appeals until it was changed in 1971. [1] Members were titled Judge until a 1928 constitutional amendment changed the title to Justice and designated the presiding member Chief Justice. [2]