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Georgia Bullock (1913): [27] [28] First female judge in Los Angeles County, California (1931) May Darlington Lahey (1914): [411] First female (who was Australian) to serve as the Presiding Judge of the Los Angeles Municipal Court (c. 1943) Mabel Walker Willebrandt (1917): [412] First female Public Defender of Los Angeles County, California (c ...
The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) is a nationwide organization of human rights lawyers in the Philippines. [5] [6] It was founded in 1974 by Sen.Jose W. Diokno, [5] Lorenzo Tañada, [7] J.B.L. Reyes, [4] and Joker Arroyo [8] during the martial law era under former President Ferdinand Marcos. [9]
GABRIELA, the alliance, was founded in April 1984 after 10,000 women marched in Manila, defying a Marcos decree against demonstrations. [5] GABRIELA was named in honor of Gabriela Silang , [ 6 ] a Filipina revolutionary, who led a revolt against Spain in 1763 following her husband 's assassination. [ 7 ]
California Women Lawyers (CWL) is the statewide bar association for women in the U.S. state of California. [1] Headquartered in Sacramento , [ 2 ] CWL was founded in 1974 to seek the professional advancement of women lawyers, to promote gender equity in the legal profession and the judiciary , and to advance women's rights generally.
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP is a Los Angeles-based law firm of more than 450 attorneys and other professionals founded in 1965. The firm earned revenues of $316.9 million in 2017. The firm earned revenues of $316.9 million in 2017.
Rosalind Goodrich Bates, an attorney based in Los Angeles, served as the editor of the Women Lawyers Journal in 1931 and from 1935-1936. [7] Eva M. Mack, editor of Women Lawyers' Journal. [8] Emilie Bullowa, an advocate for legal aid, who served as the first president of the national organization from 1916-1922. [9]
The Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles is headed by Consul General Edgar B. Badajos, who assumed his position on April 6, 2021. [10] Prior to becoming Consul General, Badajos, a career diplomat who has been with the Philippine foreign service since 1997, had served as Consul General at the Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah, and was also previously deployed to the missions in ...