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Leticia Hinojosa: [47] First female judge in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas (1996) Ginger D. Fagan: [91] First female county judge elected in South Texas (upon becoming a judge in Refugio County in 1978) Erum Jivani-Gillani: [92] First Asian American female to serve as a Judge of the Pearland Municipal Court (2018) [Brazoria, Fort Bend and Harris ...
Hughes was a member of the three-judge panel that first heard the case of Roe v. Wade; the panel's decision was subsequently affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States. In Taylor v. Sterrett, she argued to upgrade prisoner treatment in the Dallas County jail. Hughes noted that "the Dallas County Jail was very much in need of change.
Crier was born in Dallas, Texas in 1954 to Ann, a horse breeder and homemaker, and William Crier, a banker. [5] She has two sisters. In 1970, Crier's family bought a farm in a Dallas suburb where she hauled hay, cleaned stalls, and competed in Arabian horse shows across the Southwest. She attended Richardson High School. [6]
Jul. 10—Forty years ago, Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice named to the Supreme Court of the United States. O'Connor, appointed by President Ronald Reagan on July 7, 1981 ...
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.
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]
Lynn was in private practice from 1976 to 1999 [2] at the law firm Carrington Coleman in Dallas. [1] Lynn was the firm's first female associate, from 1976 to 1982, and then became the firm's first female partner, from 1983 to 1999, prior to joining the bench.