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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)
First Chinese American female (federal judge): Dolly M. Gee (1984) in 2010 [119] First Korean American female (federal judge): Lucy H. Koh (1993) in 2010 [120] First South Asian female (federal judge): Cathy Bissoon (1993) in 2011 [121] First Filipino American female (federal judge): Lorna G. Schofield (1981) in 2012 [122]
Also: United States: People: By occupation: Judges / Women jurists: Women judges This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American judges . It includes judges that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in New York.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
Jean A. Permanand (1962): [276] [280] First female appointed as a Judge of the Appeal Court of Trinidad and Tobago (1993-2004).She was also the first female lawyer to become the Solicitor General in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1980s.
First female (full judgeship and a presiding judge): Ethel E. Mackiernan (c. 1918) during the 1930s [10] [11] [5] First female (Associate Justice of the Boston Municipal Court): Jennie Loitman Barron (c. 1914) in 1937 [12] First female (Associate Judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court): Jennie Loitman Barron (c. 1914) around 1959 [12]
Lee S. Edmon: [417] [418] First female to serve as the Assistant Presiding Judge (2009-2010) and Presiding Judge (2011-2012) of Los Angeles County Superior Court Carol L. Newman (1979): [ 419 ] First openly L GBT female to serve as the San Fernando Valley Bar Association, Los Angeles County, California (2015)
Female judges. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Judges. It includes judges that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories ...