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Florence Bates (1914): [8] One of the first female lawyers in Texas. She would leave the profession and become a Hollywood actress later in life. Beverly Tarpley (1952): [9] [10] [11] First female lawyer in Texas to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court; Charlye O. Farris (1953): [12] First African American female lawyer in Texas
Ward became the first woman to pass the Texas State Bar Exam in 1910 and soon after began practicing law with her husband. Ward chose to work behind the scenes rather than in court out of fear that all-male juries might react poorly to a female lawyer. [1] In 1915, Ward became the first Texas woman to practice before the United States Supreme ...
Ruby Kless Sondock (born April 26, 1926) is a former Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court.She was the first woman to serve on the Texas Supreme Court. Sondock initially attended the University of Houston Law Center in order to become a legal secretary, but she was admitted to the state bar a year before her graduation as valedictorian of her class (1962). [1]
O’Connor became the first woman to be appointed the Supreme Court in 1981, paving the way for future female justices Sandra Day O’Connor, first female Supreme Court justice, dies at 93 Skip to ...
The All-Woman Supreme Court refers to a special session of the Supreme Court of Texas which met in 1925. The court consisted of Hortense Sparks Ward, who was appointed special chief justice, Hattie Leah Henenberg, and Ruth Virginia Brazzil. It sat for five months, ruling on the case Johnson v. Darr, and was the first all-female supreme court in ...
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court and the justice who held the court’s center for more than a generation, died Friday, a court spokesman said in a statement.
First African American female to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court: Constance Baker Motley (1946) in 1954 [36] [37] [38] First lesbian to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court : Pearl M. Hart in 1957 [ 39 ]
In 1971 and again in the fall of 1972, Weddington appeared before the Supreme Court. [18] At the time of her first Supreme Court presentation, Weddington was 26 years old and had never tried a legal case. [3] Her argument was based on the 1st, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th, and 14th amendments, as well as the Court's previous decision in Griswold v.