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Mary Lilly (1895): [112] First female (a lawyer) elected to the New York State legislature (1918) Geraldine Ferraro (1961): [113] First female (a lawyer) vice presidential candidate for a major U.S. political party (1984) Hillary Clinton (1973): [114] First female (a lawyer) Senator for New York (2000). She would later become the first female U ...
Margaret Brent: first woman to act as an attorney in the United States (1648) Arabella Mansfield: first woman admitted to practice law in the United States (1869) Charlotte E. Ray: First African American female lawyer in the United States and Washington, D.C. (1872) Lyda Conley: First Native American female lawyer in the United States (1902)
Katherine M. Sheehan (born December 5, 1963) [1] is an American politician and attorney serving as the 75th Mayor of Albany, New York. Prior to being elected Mayor, Sheehan served as City Treasurer from 2010 to 2013. On September 10, 2013, she defeated Corey Ellis in the Democratic primary for mayor of Albany.
12 years after her admission to the bar, Stoneman went on to study law formally at Albany Law School. [5] While studying law, she continued to teach at the State University of Albany and also clerked for a lawyer in the area. She was the first woman to graduate from Albany Law School in 1898. [6] She maintained a law office in Albany from 1889 ...
Sheila Abdus-Salaam (née Turner; March 14, 1952 – April 12, 2017) [1] was an American lawyer and judge. In 2013, after having served on the New York City Civil Court, the New York Supreme Court, and the Appellate Division, Abdus-Salaam was nominated to the New York Court of Appeals (New York's highest court) and was unanimously confirmed as an Associate Judge by the New York State Senate.
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The department was established in 1926–1927 with the original name being Office of mental hygiene; as part of a restructuring of the New York state government, and was given responsibility for people diagnosed with mental retardation, mental illness or epilepsy.
Rachel "Ruchie" Freier (born April 2, 1965) [1] is a New York Supreme Court justice. [2]In 2016, she campaigned and was elected as a Civil Court judge for the Kings County 5th judicial district in New York State, thereby becoming the first Hasidic Jewish woman to be elected as a civil court judge in New York State, [3] [4] [5] and the first Hasidic woman [6] to hold public office [7] in United ...