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List Of First Women Lawyers And Judges In Massachusetts
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Massachusetts. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure. Firsts in state history Law School * First African American female law graduate: Blanche E. Braxton in 1923 Lawyers * First female: Lelia J. Robinson (1882) *First female (to argue case in jury trial): Anna Christy Fall (1891) *First female (to appear before the full bench of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court): Margaret M. McChesney (1921) in 1926 * First African American female: Blanche E. Braxton (1923): lawyer in Massachusetts. She is also the first African American female lawyer to practice in the United States District Court in Massachusetts in 1933. * First Armenian American female: Norma M. Karaian * First African American female (to follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massachusetts
Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut [Massachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət],'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders on the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Maine to the east, Connecticut and Rhode Island to the south, New Hampshire and Vermont to the north, and New York (state), New York to the west. The state's capital and List of municipalities in Massachusetts, most populous city, as well as its cultural and financial center, is Boston. Massachusetts is also home to the urban area, urban core of Greater Boston, the largest metropolitan area in New England and a region profoundly influential upon American History of the United States, history, academia, and the Economy of the United States, research economy. Originally dependent on agriculture, fishing, and trade. Massachusetts was transformed into a manuf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Abrams
Ruth Ida Abrams (December 26, 1930 – September 12, 2019) was the first female justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, where she served from 1978 to 2000, and the first female appellate justice in Massachusetts. Justice Abrams was a graduate of Radcliffe College's Class of 1953. She went on to graduate from Harvard Law School as one of approximately a dozen women in the Class of 1956. She was an assistant district attorney for Middlesex County (MA), where she helped prosecute Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler" and also served with the State Attorney General's Office. Justice Abrams also served as special counsel to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and as a Superior Court Judge before then-Governor Michael Dukakis appointed her to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1978, the first woman on the Court. It would be another 19 years before another woman was appointed a justice to the SJC. Serving with distinction, she retired from the court at the ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massachusetts Attorney General
The Massachusetts Attorney General is an elected Constitution of Massachusetts, constitutionally defined executive officer of the Government of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government. The officeholder is the chief lawyer and law enforcement officer of the Massachusetts, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The officeholder also acts as an advocate and resource for the Commonwealth and its residents in many areas, including consumer protection, combating fraud and corruption, protecting civil rights, and maintaining economic competition. The current Attorney General is Maura Healey. History When the 1780 Massachusetts State Constitution, state constitution was first enacted, the attorney general was appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts, governor, with the advice and consent of Massachusetts Governor's Council, the Governor's Council. The office was abolished in 1843 and re-established in 1849. In 1855 the constitution was amended so that the attorney general (along with a number o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise J
Denise may refer to: * Denise (given name), people with the given name ''Denise'' * Denise (computer chip), a video graphics chip from the Amiga computer * "Denise" (song), a 1963 song by Randy & the Rainbows * Denise, Mato Grosso, a municipality in Brazil * ''Denise'', an 1885 play by Alexander Dumas ''fils'' * SP-350 Denise, a small submarine also known as the "Diving saucer" * A brand name of desogestrel See also * Hurricane Denise, a list of tropical cyclones named Denise * Saint Denise (other) *Denice (other) Denice is an Italian commune. Denice may also refer to: *Denicé Denicé () is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France. Twins cities * Hallgarten (1986) See also *Communes of the Rhône department The following is a list of t ... * Denyse, a given name {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Talwani
Indira Talwani (born October 6, 1960) is a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Biography Talwani received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in 1982, from Radcliffe College. She received a Juris Doctor in 1988 from UC Berkeley School of Law, graduating Order of the Coif. She began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge Stanley A. Weigel of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, from 1988 to 1989. She served as an associate at the San Francisco, California, law firm of Altshuler Berzon LLP, from 1989 to 1995 and as a partner at that law firm, from 1996 to 1999. From 1999 to 2014, she served as a partner at the Boston, Massachusetts, law firm of Segal Roitman LLP, where she focused her practice on civil litigation at the State and Federal trial court and appellate levels. Federal judicial service On September 24, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Talwani to serve as a United States District Judg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States District Court For The District Of Massachusetts
The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (in case citations, D. Mass.) is the federal district court whose territorial jurisdiction is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. The first court session was held in Boston in 1789. The second term was held in Salem in 1790 and court session locations alternated between the two cities until 1813. That year, Boston became the court's permanent home. A western division was opened in Springfield in 1979 and a central division was opened in Worcester in 1987. The court's main building is the John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse on Fan Pier in South Boston. Appeals from the District of Massachusetts are heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, also located in the Moakley courthouse (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit). U.S. Attorney's Office The United States Attorney's Office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalila Argaez Wendlandt
Dalila Argaez Wendlandt (born 1968/1969) is an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. She is a former Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Early life and education Wendlandt was born in New Orleans, the daughter of Colombian immigrants. She received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1991 and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993 and her Juris Doctor with high honors from Stanford Law School in 1996, where she was an editor of the ''Stanford Law Review''. Legal career After graduating law school, she served as a law clerk for Judge John M. Walker Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 1997, she joined the law firm Ropes & Gray, eventually becoming a partner. Judicial career Massachusetts Court of Appeals Wendlandt was appointed to the Massachusetts Appeals Court in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geraldine Hines
Geraldine S. Hines (born October 29, 1947) is an American retired judge who formerly served served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 2014 to 2017. She was nominated in July 2014 by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and confirmed by an 8–0 vote of the Governor's Council. She succeeded Ralph D. Gants, who was promoted to chief justice. Hines was born in Scott, Mississippi. She attended Tougaloo College in Madison County, Mississippi, and received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. From 1973 to 1976 she was a public defender with the Roxbury Defenders Committee. She was the attorney in charge of the Roxbury Defenders Committee from 1976 to 1978. She worked in private practice throughout the 1980s and 1990s. She was confirmed for the Massachusetts Superior Court in May 2001 and promoted to the Massachusetts Appeals Court in January 2013. She was sworn into the Supreme Judicial Court on July 31, 2014, beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande R
Fernande is a predominantly French language feminine given name. It is the feminine form of the masculine given name Fernand. People bearing the name Fernande include: *Fernande Albany (1889–1966), French actress * Fernande Arendt (1891–), Belgian tennis player *Fernande Baetens (1901–1977), Belgian jurist and feminist * Fernande Barrey (1893–1960), French artist's model and painter * Fernande Bayetto (1928–2015), French alpine skier * Fernande Bochatay (born 1946), Swiss alpine skier * Fernande Brosseau, Canadian social activist * Fernande Caroen (1920–1998), Belgian freestyle swimmer * Fernande Decruck (1896–1954), French composer * Fernande R.V. Duffly (born 1949), Indonesian-American lawyer and jurist * Fernande Giroux, Canadian actress and jazz singer * Fernande Grudet (also known as Madame Claude; 1923–2015), French brothel keeper * Fernande Keufgens (also known as Fernande Davis), Belgian World War II resistance member * Fernande de Mertens (1850–1924), Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Lenk
Barbara A. Lenk (born December 2, 1950) is an American attorney and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. On April 4, 2011, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick nominated her to that position and she was confirmed by the Governor's Council on May 4, 2011. She took the oath of office on June 8, 2011. Early life and education Justice Lenk was born in Queens, New York. Her parents were a bookbinder and a housekeeper. Her first language was Polish. She received a Bachelor of Arts ''magna cum laude'' from Fordham University in 1972, a Doctor of Philosophy in political philosophy from Yale University in 1978, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1979. Career Upon graduation from law school, she joined the Boston law firm of Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer and was a partner there for six years. Her practice focused on civil litigation, with a specialty in First Amendment issues. Judicial service In 1993, Massachusetts Governor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabita Singh
Sabita Singh is an American lawyer and Judge of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. On Oct. 25, 2006, the then Republican Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney nominated Singh to be Judge of the Concord District Court. Her nomination was confirmed on November 15 by the eight-man Governor's Council. She was succeeded by Tejal R. Mehta in February 2018. In May 2017, Republican governor Charlie Baker nominated Singh to the Massachusetts Appeals Court and she was unanimously confirmed as an associate justice by the Governor's Council on June 21, 2017. Born in Bihar, Singh came to the US as a child with her family and was brought up in Pennsylvania. She is an alumna of Pennsylvania State University, where she received her Bachelor's Degree in the Administration of Justice in 1987, and of Boston University School of Law, where she received her J.D. degree in 1990. Singh worked an attorney specializing in white collar criminal defense and business regulation in the White Collar Crime and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret H
Margaret is a female first name, derived via French () and Latin () from grc, μαργαρίτης () meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Persian. Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the 16th century and 18th century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second-most popular female name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth-most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the 1990 census. Margaret has many diminutive forms in many different languages, including Maggie, Madge, Daisy, Margarete, Marge, Margo, Margie, Marjorie, Meg, Megan, Rita, Greta, Gretchen, and Peggy. Name variants Full name * (Irish) * (Irish) * (Dutch), (German), (Swedish) * (English) Diminutives * (English) * (English) First half * ( French) * ( Welsh) Second half * (Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
