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National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ) is an American professional organization founded in 1979.Members are lawyers and women judges who are dedicated to preserving judicial independence to women, minorities and other historically disfavored groups while increasing the number and advancement of women judges, and providing judicial education.
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 ] First African American female president ( National Association of Women Lawyers ): Mahala Ashley Dickerson in 1983 [ 104 ]
Justice Binta Nyako (born May 14, 1959) is a judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria from Katsina State.She is the current President of the International Association of Women Judges and has previously served as the President of the Nigeria's National Association of Women Judges.
She also served as president of the National Association of Women Judges. She was a founder and co-president of Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert (JALBCA), and remains on its board of directors. [7] [8] She is a charter member of the American College of Business Court Judges. From 2003 to 2005, she co-chaired the Summary Jury Trials ...
Ruiz is a past president of the National Association of Women Judges., [5] and from 2018 to 2020 served as the President of the International Association of Women Judges. She is also a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the board of trustees for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. [6]
She served as president of the Indiana Judges Association for the 2023 to 2024 term. [2] In 2023, she chaired the Annual Conference of the National Association of Women Judges. [2] She served as chair of the American Bar Association's National Conference of State Trial Judges in 2019 to 2020. [19] [20] [2]
• In 2007, Walsh served as president of Miami-Dade Florida Association for Women Lawyers. [8] [29] • She is an International Director of the National Association of Women Judges. [29] [30] • In June 2019, she co-chaired a National Association of Women Judges Global Judicial Leadership Conference at Columbia University in New York. [31]
She served on the Board of Overseers for the National Science Foundation's project on the U.S. Supreme Court, which culminated in the United States Supreme Court Judicial Database, which has remained in continuous use. [2] [5] In 1979, she co-founded the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ). Their numbers grew, and in 1980, Cook led the ...