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List Of First Women Lawyers And Judges In The United States
This list of the first women lawyers and judges in each state of the United States includes the years in which the women were admitted to practice law. Also included are women of other distinctions, such as the first in their states to get law degrees. Firsts nationwide Law degrees * First female law graduate: Ada Kepley (1881) in 1870 *First African American female law graduate: Charlotte E. Ray (1872) *First Native American ( Chippewa) female law graduate: Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin in 1914 *First Hawaiian Nisei female law graduate: Patsy Mink (1953) in 1951 *First deaf African American female law graduate: Claudia L. Gordon (c. 2000) Lawyers *First female to act as an attorney: Margaret Brent in 1648 *First female without a formal legal education admitted to state bar: Arabella Mansfield (1869) *First African American female: Charlotte E. Ray (1872) *First Russian female: Alice Serber (1899) *First Native American (Wyandot) female: : Lyda Conle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myra Bradwell
Myra Colby Bradwell (February 12, 1831 – February 14, 1894) was an American publisher and political activist. She attempted in 1869 to become the first woman to be admitted to the Illinois bar to practice law, but was denied admission by the Illinois Supreme Court in 1870 and the United States Supreme Court in 1873, in rulings upholding a separate women's sphere. Bradwell had founded and published ''Chicago Legal News'' from 1868, reporting on the law and continued that work. Meanwhile, influenced by her case, in 1872 the Illinois legislature passed a state law prohibiting gender discrimination in admission to any occupation or profession (with the exception of the military). Shortly before her death in 1894, the Illinois Supreme Court on its own motion, in a gesture to honor her, granted Bradwell admission to the Illinois bar in 1890, and the United States Supreme Court followed suit two years later. In 1994, Myra Bradwell was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyda Conley
Eliza Burton "Lyda" Conley ( – 1946) was a Wyandot-American lawyer of Native American and European descent, the first woman admitted to the Kansas Bar Association. She was notable for her campaign to prevent the sale and development of the Huron Cemetery in Kansas City, now known as the Wyandot National Burying Ground. She challenged the government in court, and in 1909 she was the first Native American woman admitted to argue a case before the Supreme Court of the United States. Her case appears to be the first in which "a plaintiff argued that the burying grounds of Native Americans were entitled to federal protection."Kim Dayton, "Trespassers, Beware!: Lyda Burton Conley and the Battle for Huron Place Cemetery" [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belva Ann Lockwood
Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood (October 24, 1830 – May 19, 1917) was an American lawyer, politician, educator, and author who was active in the women's rights and women's suffrage movements. She was one of the first women lawyers in the United States, and in 1879 she became the first woman to be admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court. Lockwood ran for president in 1884 and 1888 on the ticket of the National Equal Rights Party and was the first woman to appear on official ballots. While Victoria Woodhull is commonly cited as the first woman to run for president, she was not old enough to run, unlike Lockwood. Lockwood overcame many social and personal obstacles related to gender restrictions. Earlier in her life, Lockwood was a teacher and school principal, working to equalize pay for women in education. She supported the movement for world peace, and was a proponent of the Temperance movement. Early and personal life She was born Belva Ann Bennett in Royalton, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Court Of The United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. Federal tribunals in the United States, federal court cases, and over State court (United States), state court cases that involve a point of Law of the United States, federal law. It also has Original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States, original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party." The court holds the power of Judicial review in the United States, judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution of the United States, Constitution. It is also able to strike down presidential directives for violating either the Constitution or statutory law. However, it may act only within the context of a case in an area of law ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judge Advocate General's Corps
The Judge Advocate General's Corps, also known as JAG or JAG Corps, is the military justice branch or specialty of the United States Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps and Navy. Officers serving in the JAG Corps are typically called judge advocates. Judge advocates are responsible for administrative law, government contracting, civilian and military personnel law, the law of war and international relations, environmental law, etc. They also serve as prosecutors for the military when conducting court-martials. History George Washington established the JAG Corps on July 29, 1775. Judge advocates were involved in writing and implementing Abraham Lincoln's ''General Orders No. 100: Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field'', which was the first systematic code of the law of war in the United States. Duties and chain of command Judge advocates serve primarily as legal advisors to the command to which they are assigned. In thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air Force
An air force – in the broadest sense – is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an army or navy. Typically, air forces are responsible for gaining control of the air, carrying out strategic and tactical bombing missions, and providing support to land and naval forces often in the form of aerial reconnaissance and close air support. The term air force may also refer to a tactical air force or numbered air force, which is an operational formation either within a national air force or comprising several air components from allied nations. Air forces typically consist of a combination of fighters, bombers, helicopters, transport planes and other aircraft. Many air forces may command and control other air defence forces assets such as anti-aircraft artillery, surface-to-air missiles, or anti-ballistic missile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carin Clauss
Carin Ann Clauss (born January 24, 1939) was the first female United States Solicitor of Labor. Early life Carin Ann Clauss was born on January 24, 1939, in Knoxville, Tennessee. She attended Vassar College, graduating in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts. Three years later, Clauss graduated from Columbia Law School as one of six women in her class. Career Following law school, Clauss worked at the United States Department of Labor in the Office of the Solicitor, joining the department in August 1963. During her tenure, she served as Deputy Counsel of Appellate Litigation in 1968 and 1969 and co-chaired the Labor Committee of the Federal Bar Association in 1968 and 1972. She also worked to develop the department's litigation strategy for enforcing the Equal Pay Act of 1963. On February 24, 1977, President Carter announced his nomination of Clauss to serve as the Solicitor of the Department of Labor. She was confirmed the same year, becoming the first female solicitor of the Depa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudeen Arthur
Claudeen Bates Arthur (née Claudeen Rosenda Bates, 1942 November 27, 2004) was a Native American lawyer who was the first Navajo woman licensed as a lawyer in the United States and the first female Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation. Early life Claudeen Rosenda Bates was born in 1942 in Ganado, Arizona, the daughter of Claude and Rose Bates. She had two sisters, Alberta and Ernestine, and a brother, Lorenzo. In her youth, Bates worked as a jockey at the family ranch in Upper Fruitland, New Mexico. She attended the Navajo Methodist Mission School and later graduated from the New Mexico State University with a bachelor's degree in Biology. Dissatisfied with being a science teacher at the Navajo Methodist Mission School, Arthur went on to get a Juris Doctor degree from the Arizona State University in 1974. Career After graduating from college in 1974, Arthur spent two years at the New Mexico-based Navajo Legal Services and became one of the first two Nava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Ping Lum
Emma Ping Lum (1910-1989) was the first Chinese American female lawyer in the United States and California. Early life Lum was born on August 10, 1910, to Walter U. Lum and Gum Young Lee. She was one of seven children. Her father Walter was a prominent figure in Chinatown, San Francisco. He founded the newspaper ''Chinese Times'' in 1924, and launched various political efforts to abolish the Expatriation Act of 1907 and the Chinese Exclusion Act. Education Lum earned her A.B. from San Francisco State College in 1934 and an M.A. from Columbia University in 1943. Lum was fluent in various Chinese dialects, and applied those skills while working in San Francisco's Office of Censorship, earning a certificate of merit for her service, during World War II. In 1947, Lum graduated from UC Hastings College of the Law and became a member of the State Bar of California. In 1952, she was the first Chinese American female to practice before the United States Supreme Court. By 1966, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth K
Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist Ships * HMS ''Elizabeth'', several ships * ''Elisabeth'' (schooner), several ships * ''Elizabeth'' (freighter), an American freighter that was wrecked off New York harbor in 1850; see Places Australia * City of Elizabeth ** Elizabeth, South Australia * Elizabeth Reef, a coral reef in the Tasman Sea United States * Elizabeth, Arkansas * Elizabeth, Colorado * Elizabeth, Georgia * Elizabeth, Illinois * Elizabeth, Indiana * Hopkinsville, Kentucky, originally known as Elizabeth * Elizabeth, Louisiana * Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts * Elizabeth, Minnesota * Elizabeth, New Jersey, largest city with the name in the U.S. * Elizabeth City, North Carolina * Elizabeth (Charlotte neighborhood), North Carolina * Elizabeth, Pennsylvania * Elizabeth Township, Pennsylvania (other) * Eliz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine La Barraque
Christine Blanche la Barraque (July 16, 1868 or 1873 — February 10, 1961) was a French-born American soprano and advocate for blind education and employment; she was also the first blind woman to be admitted to the practice of law in California. Early life and education La Barraque was born in France, and moved to California with her parents as a girl. Blind from before age 2, she was educated at the California School for the Deaf and Blind in Berkeley, and completed an undergraduate degree at the University of California in 1896, before pursuing legal training, graduating fifth in her class the Hastings School of Law. After becoming the first blind woman admitted to the bar in California, she studied music in Boston and in Italy for two years. While she was in Italy, she toured some Italian schools for the blind to write about them for ''The New Outlook''. Career La Barraque found success performing on the vaudeville circuit as the mysterious "Lady of the Green Veil," and as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
