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Clara Shortridge Foltz (July 16, 1849 – September 2, 1934) was an American lawyer, the first female lawyer on the West Coast, and the pioneer of the idea of the public defender. The Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles was renamed after her in 2002, and is now known as the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center .
Clara Shortridge Foltz (1878): [2] First female lawyer in Santa Clara County, California Isabel Charles: [ 234 ] [ 265 ] First female Justice of the Peace in Santa Clara County, California (1917) Miriam E. Wolff (1940): [ 266 ] First female appointed as a municipal court judge in Santa Clara County, California (1975)
[7] [8] In 1925, the first female lawyer in California, Clara Shortridge Foltz, was considered for a federal judgeship at the age of 76. Florence E. Allen became both the first woman to be elected to the positions of general jurisdiction court in 1920 and the first female state appellate judge through her election to the Ohio Supreme Court in 1922.
The award is named in honor of Clara Shortridge Foltz, the first female member of the bar on the West Coast and the founder of the first public defender office in the United States. Sturgill ...
First female president (Federal Bar Association): Marguerite Rawalt in 1943 [100] First Asian American (female) president (Federal Bar Association): [50] Anh Le Kremer; First female president (National Bar Association): Arnette Hubbard in 1981 [101] First Jewish female admitted (American Bar Association): Clarice Baright (1905) in 1919 [102] [103]
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Originally known as the Criminal Courts Building, [4] in 2002 it was renamed the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, after Clara S. Foltz, the first female lawyer on the West Coast of the United States (and also the first person to propose the creation of a public defender's office).
Governor Gavin Newsom is postponing a clemency decision for Lyle and Erik Menendez until incoming LA County DA Nathan ... hold a press conference at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice ...