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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.
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 award is named in honor of Clara Shortridge Foltz, the first female member of the bar on the West Coast and the founder of the first public defender office in the United States. Sturgill ...
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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).
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