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Eva L. Sloan: [55] First female lawyer in Milledgeville, Georgia [Baldwin County, Georgia] Alene Hardin (c. 1918): [56] First female lawyer in Macon, Georgia [Bibb County, Georgia] Faye Sanders Martin (1956): [57] First woman to practice law in Bulloch County, Georgia. She would later become the first female Ogeechee Judicial Circuit judge. [58]
Leah Ward Sears (née Leah Jeanette Sears; [1] born June 13, 1955) is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.Sears was the first African-American female chief justice of a state supreme court in the United States. [2]
Georgia was later the first state to reject the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when it was proposed in 1919, and, unlike most other states in the Union, Georgia did not allow women to vote in the 1920 presidential election. [15] Women in Georgia were not given the right to vote until 1922.
Christian became the first female Superior Court judge for the Macon Judicial Circuit, which serves Bibb, Peach and Crawford counties, in 1994. ... In 1980, she was admitted to the Georgia Bar.
First female to clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals: Carmel “Kim” Prashker Ebb in 1945 [46] [47] First female to clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit: Doris Gray [48] [49] First African American female to clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims: Janene D. Jackson [50]
Below is a list of the names of the first woman to sit on the highest court of their respective states in the United States. The first state with a female justice was Ohio; Florence E. Allen was named to the bench in 1923. [1]
She was also the first female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of The Bahamas (1996-2001) and the President of the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas (2001-2010). Allyson Maynard Gibson: [34] [35] First female Queen's Counsel (QC) in The Bahamas (2015) Marisa Mason-Smith: [36] First (female) Ombudsman for The Bahamas (2019)
First female: Florence E. Allen (1914) in 1922 [28] [29] [30] First female to serve as chief justice: Lorna E. Lockwood (1925) in 1970 [103] First Hispanic American female: Dorothy Comstock Riley in 1982 [37] First Japanese American female: Paula A. Nakayama in 1993 [45] First African American female to serve as chief justice: Leah Ward Sears ...