Eleanor Oducayen Nisperos is
California’s first
Filipina American female lawyer.
She completed her undergraduate education at the
University of Hawaii, and earned her law degree in 1971 from Boalt Hall
University of California, Berkeley. The following year, she became the first
Filipina admitted to practice law in California.
Nisperos served as the first president of the Filipino Bar Association of Northern California (FBANC) from 1981-1982. She initially worked as a Deputy Attorney General in
San Francisco, California, before serving as an
administrative law judge and presiding judge for the
California Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board until her retirement. From 2007 to 2011, Nisperos served as Deputy Attorney General for the
Northern Mariana Islands’
Office of the Attorney General
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See also
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List of first women lawyers and judges in California
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in California. 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 thei ...
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California lawyers
20th-century American women lawyers
20th-century American lawyers
University of Hawaiʻi alumni
UC Berkeley School of Law alumni
1947 births
Living people
21st-century American women lawyers
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