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Barb Gorman: [69] First female to serve as a Judge of the General Division for the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court; Helen Wallace: [70] First female juvenile judge for Montgomery County, Ohio (2019) Janna Woodburn: [71] First native-born female lawyer in Morgan County, Ohio; Luann Cooperrider (1983): [72] [73] First female judge in Perry ...
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]
The first female judge to serve on a federal district court, Burnita Shelton Matthews, was appointed in 1949 to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. [ citation needed ] Barring women from practicing law was prohibited in the U.S. in 1971. [ 9 ]
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]
Judge Cheryl L. Waite was elected to the Seventh District Court of Appeals in 1996. [3] She was the first woman to serve on this bench. [4] Judge Waite has been reelected in 2002, 2008, 2014, [2] and 2020. [5] She faces term limits in 2026. [6] She ran as a Democrat. [5]
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The first female justice on the court was Florence E. Allen who served from 1923 to 1934. In 1974, the court moved from the annex building to the Rhodes State Office Tower . It moved to the Ohio Judicial Center in 2004.
Meet the six attorneys seeking seats on Ohio's powerful top court, including chief justice. Skip to main content. 24/7 help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...