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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.
Madge Morris Wagner (née Morris; 1862–1924) was an American poet and journalist associated with The Golden Era.She was a contemporary and friend of Clara Shortridge Foltz and Frona Eunice Wait. [1]
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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)
Lucy Nicholson/Getty Danny Masterson stands with his lawyers Thomas Mesereau and Sharon Appelbaum as he is arraigned on rape charges at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on Sept. 18 ...
Clara Shortridge Foltz (1881) – first practicing female lawyer in the United States; Earl Ben Gilliam (1957) — Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California; Louis Earl Goodman (1915) — Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; Philip Kan Gotanda (1978 ...