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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]
First female to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court: Belva Ann Lockwood (1873) in 1880 [35] First Native American female to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court: Lyda Conley (1902) in 1909 [4] First African American female to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court: Constance Baker Motley (1946) in 1954 [36] [37] [38]
Charlotte E. Ray (January 13, 1850 – January 4, 1911) was an American lawyer. She was the first black American female lawyer in the United States. [1] [2] Ray graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1872.
[2] [3] Lovenstein went on to practice law with her husband. [1] In 1925, Lovenstein became the first woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court of Virginia. [3] [4] She died on February 10, 1971, in New York. [1] In 2018, the Virginia Capitol Foundation announced that Lovenstein's name would be on the Virginia Women's Monument's glass Wall ...
2008 – Roberta Cooper Ramo became the first female president of the American Law Institute. [20] 2016–present – women enrolled in U.S. law schools outnumber men. [23] 2023 – Women comprised 50.3 percent of U.S. law firm associates, exceeding men in the profession for the first time in the United States, increased from 38 percent in 1991 ...
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 .
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 ...
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).