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Mary Genevieve Gaudron KC (born 5 January 1943), is an Australian lawyer and judge, who was the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia.She was the Solicitor-General of New South Wales from 1981 until 1987 before her appointment to the High Court.
This made Chandy the first female judge in India. In 1948, she was raised to the position of District Judge. [5] [6] She became the first female judge in an Indian high court when she was appointed to the Kerala High Court on 9 February 1959. She remained in that office until her retirement on 5 April 1967. [7]
Dame Rose Heilbron, DBE (19 August 1914 – 8 December 2005) was a British barrister who served as a High Court judge.Her career included many "firsts" for a woman – she was the first woman to achieve a first class honours degree in law at the University of Liverpool, [1] the first woman to win a scholarship to Gray's Inn, one of the first two women to be appointed King's Counsel in England ...
The first court was established in 1788, [1] the first woman to be awarded a Bachelor of Laws degree graduated in 1903, [2] and the first woman barrister was admitted in 1905. [3] It was not until 1965 that the first woman (Roma Mitchell) was appointed to an Australian judicial position. [4] These pioneering Australians have been described as ...
There have been 57 justices of the High Court; fifty have been men and seven women. The first female justice was Mary Gaudron who was a justice from 1987 to 2003. Susan Crennan was a justice from 2005 to 2015, and Virginia Bell from 2009 to 2021. Susan Kiefel was the first woman to be appointed Chief Justice of Australia. She was appointed in ...
Ellen Ash Peters, who was the first woman to serve as Connecticut's chief justice and wrote the majority opinion in the state Supreme Court's landmark school desegregation ruling in 1996, has died.
One such woman was Mary O'Toole, who became the first woman municipal judge of the United States, when she was appointed Judge of the Municipal Court of Washington, D.C. by President Harding in 1921. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 1925, the first female lawyer in California, Clara Shortridge Foltz , was considered for a federal judgeship at the age of 76.
From 2000 to 2015, Toal served as the state’s first female chief justice, as well as the first Roman Catholic and native Columbian to preside over South Carolina’s highest court, according to ...