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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.
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 ...
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Clara Harter. December 19, 2024 at 7:44 AM. Danny Masterson arrives at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles on May 31, 2023. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
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)
The mother of Tory Lanez's son was visibly distraught shortly after Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David Herriford handed Lanez a 10-year prison sentence in his felony assault trial for ...
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 ...