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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 .
The project started with a single biography - that of Clara S. Foltz, the first woman lawyer in California.In the course of writing her life, Foltz's biographer, Professor Barbara Babcock, has compiled a wealth of information about her subject and the times in which she lived, and most particularly, the other women lawyers she knew.
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1.1 Law school. 1.2 Lawyers. 1.2.1 ... First female: Clara Shortridge Foltz (1878) in 1910 [97] Federal Bar Associations ... List of first women lawyers and judges in ...
[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.
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)
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).
At the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, during a "Congress" of the Board of Lady Managers, Clara Shortridge Foltz made her first highly public presentation of her idea of the public defender. [3] Then, due to Foltz's persistent efforts over a period of several years, Los Angeles County established a public defender office in 1913 under its county ...