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Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the ...
. 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 Georgia's history


Law School

* First female law graduate: Minnie Anderson Hale in 1911


Lawyers

*First females: Minnie Anderson Hale, Betty Reynolds Cobb and Mary C. Johnson (1916) * First female to practice before the
Georgia Court of Appeals The Georgia Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. History Founding of the court The genesis of the Court of Appeals began with a report by the State Bar of Georgia in 1895, ...
and the Supreme Court of Georgia: Viola Ross Napier (1920) in 1922 *First African American female: Rachel E. Pruden-Herndon (1942) *First Asian American (female; Filipino descent): Ruby Carpio Bell (1964)


State judges

*First female: Annie Ogburn Anderson in 1922 *First African American females: Romae Turner Powell and Edith Jacqueline Ingram Grant in 1968-1969 *First female (court of record): Dorothy Robinson in 1972 *First female elected (without prior judicial service): Rufe McCombs Maulsby in 1975 *First female elected (superior court): Phyllis A. Kravitch (1943) in 1976 *First female (
Georgia Court of Appeals The Georgia Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. History Founding of the court The genesis of the Court of Appeals began with a report by the State Bar of Georgia in 1895, ...
): Dorothy Beasley (1969) in 1984 *First female (temporary judge; Georgia Supreme Court): Dorothy Robinson in 1985 * First African American female (superior court):
Leah Ward Sears Leah Ward Sears (born June 13, 1955) is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Sears was the first African-American female chief justice of a state supreme court in the United States. When she was first ap ...
(1980) in 1988 *First African American female (Chief Presiding Judge of a Georgia court):
Glenda Hatchett Glenda A. Hatchett (born May 31, 1951) is the star of the former court show, ''Judge Hatchett'' and current day ''The Verdict with Judge Hatchett'', and founding partner at the national law firm, The Hatchett Firm. Early life and education Hatc ...
(1977) in 1990 *First (African American) female ( Georgia Supreme Court; Chief Justice):
Leah Ward Sears Leah Ward Sears (born June 13, 1955) is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Sears was the first African-American female chief justice of a state supreme court in the United States. When she was first ap ...
(1980) in 1992 and 2005 respectively *First female (
Georgia Court of Appeals The Georgia Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. History Founding of the court The genesis of the Court of Appeals began with a report by the State Bar of Georgia in 1895, ...
; appointed without judicial experience): Anne Elizabeth Barnes in 1999 * First African American female (
Georgia Court of Appeals The Georgia Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. History Founding of the court The genesis of the Court of Appeals began with a report by the State Bar of Georgia in 1895, ...
; Chief Judge): M. Yvette Miller started judicial service in 1999 *First Korean American female: Chong J. Kim in 2000 *First Latino American female: Carolina Colin-Antonini in 2001 *First Asian American (female) (
Georgia Court of Appeals The Georgia Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. History Founding of the court The genesis of the Court of Appeals began with a report by the State Bar of Georgia in 1895, ...
): Carla Wong McMillian in 2013 *First Filipino American (female): Rizza O’Connor in 2013 *First South Asian (female): Jaslovelin Jessy Lall in 2015 *First Asian American female (temporary and permanent judge; Georgia Supreme Court): Carla Wong McMillian in 2015 and 2020 *First Jamaican American (female): Jewel Scott in 2020 *First Asian American female (juvenile court): Nahn-Ai Simms in 2020 *First Asian American female (Korean descent) (probate court): Sandra Pak in 2020 *First Persian American female: Ashley Drake in 2020 *First African American female (appointed by a Republican governor;
Georgia Court of Appeals The Georgia Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. History Founding of the court The genesis of the Court of Appeals began with a report by the State Bar of Georgia in 1895, ...
):
Verda Colvin Verda M. Colvin (born 1964/1965) is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia and former judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals. Education Colvin received her bachelor's degree from Sweet Briar College and her Juris Doctor from the ...
in 2020 *First Asian American female (County Recorder’s Court): Mihae Park in 2021 *First Latino American female (trial court): Ana Maria Martinez in 2022


Federal judges

* First female (
United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (in case citations, N.D. Ga.) is a United States district court which serves the residents of forty-six counties. These are divided up into four divisions. Appeals from cases ...
; Chief Judge): Orinda Dale Evans (1968) in 1979 and 1999 respectively * First African American female (Article III judge):
Leslie Abrams Gardner Leslie Abrams Gardner (''née'' Leslie Joyce Abrams; born December 6, 1974) is a U.S. District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. Prior to being appointed to the bench, she was an Assistant United State ...
in 2014 * First female (
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (in case citations, 5th Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following federal judicial districts: * Eastern District of Louisiana * M ...
; prior to the state's removal): Phyllis A. Kravitch (1943) in 1979 * First female (United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit): Frank M. Hull (1973) in 1997


Assistant Attorney General of Georgia

* First female: Rubye Jackson


United States Attorney

* First female (
Northern District of Georgia The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (in case citations, N.D. Ga.) is a United States district court which serves the residents of forty-six counties. These are divided up into four divisions. Appeals from cases ...
):
Sally Yates Sally Quillian Yates (born Sally Caroline Quillian; August 20, 1960) is an American lawyer. From 2010 to 2015, she was United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. In 2015, she was appointed United States Deputy Attorney General b ...
in 2010 * First (African American) female ( Middle District of Georgia; Acting First Assistant U.S. Attorney): Shanelle Booker in 2022.


District Attorney

* First female: Cheryl Fisher Custer in 1981 * First Latino American (female) elected:
Deborah Gonzalez Deborah Gonzalez is an American attorney and politician from Georgia. Gonzalez was elected as a District Attorney for Georgia's Western Circuit district on December 1, 2020, and is a former Democratic member of the Georgia General Assembly. She ...
in 2020


State Bar of Georgia

* First female president (Young Lawyers Division): Donna Barwick from 1988-1989 *First female president ( State Bar of Georgia): Linda Klein in 1997 * First (African American) female (State Bar of Georgia): Patrise M. Perkins-Hooker in 2014


Firsts in local history

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 and Fulton County, Georgia">Fulton Counties, Georgia] * Sarah Irene Brown, Lucine Milan Dalton, Ann Kimsey and Mrs. Holbrook: First females to graduate from John Marshall Law School (1938) [ DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb and Fulton Counties, Georgia] * Mary Welcome (1968): First African American female Court Solicitor in Atlanta, Georgia ( DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb and Fulton Counties, Georgia; 1975) * Sharon Mackenzie and Diana McDonald: First females to graduate from the Georgia State University College of Law (1984) [ DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb and Fulton Counties, Georgia] * Catharina Haynes (1986): First female graduate from Emory University’s School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia to be appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [ DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb and Fulton Counties, Georgia] * Chong Kim: First Asian American female to serve as a municipal court judge for
Doraville, Georgia Doraville is a city in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States northeast of Atlanta. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 10,623. History Doraville was incorporated by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, approved December 15, 18 ...
(2020) [ DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb and Fulton Counties, Georgia] * Vanessa Kosky: First Latino American female to serve as a municipal court judge for
Doraville, Georgia Doraville is a city in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States northeast of Atlanta. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 10,623. History Doraville was incorporated by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, approved December 15, 18 ...
(2020) [ DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb and Fulton Counties, Georgia] * Sherry Boston: First (African American) female to serve as a municipal court judge for Dunwoody, Georgia [ DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb and Fulton Counties, Georgia] * Layla Zon: First female District Attorney and Judge of the Superior Court in the Alcovy Circuit Court, Georgia (2010) Newton.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Newton County, Georgia, Newton">nowiki/>Newton County, Georgia, Newton and Walton Counties, Georgia* Edith Elizabeth House: First female graduate from the
University of Georgia School of Law The University of Georgia School of Law (Georgia Law) is the law school of the University of Georgia, a public research university in Athens, Georgia. It was founded in 1859, making it among the oldest American university law schools in continuous ...
(1925) Athens-Clark_County,_Georgia.html" ;"title="Athens-Clarke County, Georgia">Athens-Clark County, Georgia">Athens-Clarke County, Georgia">Athens-Clark County, Georgia* Eva L. Sloan: First female lawyer in Milledgeville, Georgia nowiki/>Baldwin_County,_Georgia.html" ;"title="Baldwin_County,_Georgia.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Baldwin County, Georgia">nowiki/>Baldwin County, Georgia">Baldwin_County,_Georgia.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Baldwin County, Georgia">nowiki/>Baldwin County, Georgia* Alene Hardin (c. 1918): First female lawyer in Macon, Georgia [Bibb County, Georgia] * Faye Sanders Martin (1956): First woman to practice law in Bulloch County, Georgia. She would later become the first female Ogeechee Judicial Circuit judge. * Sarah Estelle ("Stella") Akin (1917): First female lawyer in Savannah, Georgia nowiki/>Chatham_County,_Georgia.html" ;"title="Chatham_County,_Georgia.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Chatham County, Georgia">nowiki/>Chatham County, Georgia">Chatham_County,_Georgia.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Chatham County, Georgia">nowiki/>Chatham County, Georgia* Mary V. Clark Creech (1939): First female lawyer in Savannah, Georgia to have a courtroom practice [Chatham County, Georgia] * Shalena Jones: First African American female elected as the District Attorney of Chatham County, Georgia (2020) * Shannon Wallace: First female to serve as the District Attorney for Cherokee County, Georgia *
Leah Ward Sears Leah Ward Sears (born June 13, 1955) is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Sears was the first African-American female chief justice of a state supreme court in the United States. When she was first ap ...
(1980): First African American female (and African American in general) judge in
Clayton County, Georgia Clayton County is located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of 2021, the population was estimated to be 297,100 by the Census Bureau. The county seat is Jonesboro. Clayton County is included in the Atlanta metr ...
* Jewel Scott: First Jamaican American (female) appointed as a Judge of the Clayton County Superior Court (2020). She was also the first (Caribbean-American) female District Attorney for Clayton County. * Jenny Nguyen: First Asian American female judge in Clayton County, Georgia * Helen Huff (1939): First female lawyer in
Cobb County, Georgia Cobb County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia, located in the Atlanta metropolitan area in the north central portion of the state. As of 2020 Census, the population was 766,149. Its county seat and largest city is Marietta. Along with ...
* Dorothy Robinson: First female to serve as a Judge of the Cobb County Superior Court, Georgia (1972) * Adele Grubbs (1969): First female to serve as the Assistant District Attorney for Cobb County, Georgia (1977) * Joyette Holmes: First (African American) female to serve as the District Attorney and a Magistrate Judge for Cobb County, Georgia (2019) * Cathy Cox (1984): First female lawyer in Bainbridge, Georgia nowiki/>Decatur_County,_Georgia.html" ;"title="Decatur_County,_Georgia.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Decatur County, Georgia">nowiki/>Decatur County, Georgia">Decatur_County,_Georgia.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Decatur County, Georgia">nowiki/>Decatur County, Georgia* Linda W. Hunter (1981): First African American female judge of the DeKalb Superior Court and Chief Judge and Administrative Judge of the DeKalb Superior Court [ DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb County,
Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the ...
] * Carol W. Hunstein: First female elected as a Judge of the Superior Court bench in
DeKalb County, Georgia DeKalb County (, , ) is located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 764,382, making it Georgia's fourth-most populous county. Its county seat is Decatur. DeKalb County is inclu ...
(1984) * Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming: First African American female elected as the District Attorney of the Stone Mountain Circuit (2004) DeKalb.html" ;"title="DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb">DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb County, Georgia* Christina Peterson: First African American (female) probate judge in Douglas County, Georgia * Angela DeLorme (1984): First female lawyer in
Fannin County, Georgia Fannin County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,319. It is one of the most rural counties in Georgia due its location in the Appalachian Mountain Range, ...
* Kathy Valencia: First female appointed as a Judge of the Fayette County Magistrate Court, Georgia (2010) * Rhonda Kreuziger: First frican Americanfemale to serve as a Judge of the Griffin Judicial Circuit (2021) * Jane Kent Plaginos Mitchell (1971): First female lawyer in
Forsyth County, Georgia Forsyth County ( or ) is a county in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. Suburban and exurban in character, Forsyth County lies within the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. The county's only incorporated city and county seat is ...
* Dorothy Beasley (1969): First female judge in
Fulton County, Georgia Fulton County is located in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 1,066,710, making it the state's most-populous county and its only one with over o ...
(1977) *
Glenda Hatchett Glenda A. Hatchett (born May 31, 1951) is the star of the former court show, ''Judge Hatchett'' and current day ''The Verdict with Judge Hatchett'', and founding partner at the national law firm, The Hatchett Firm. Early life and education Hatc ...
(1977): First African American female to become the Chief Presiding Judge of the Fulton County, Georgia Juvenile Court (1990) * Tiffany Carter-Sellers: First (African American) female to serve as the municipal court judge for
South Fulton, Georgia The City of South Fulton is in Fulton County, Georgia, United States, in the Atlanta metropolitan area. It was incorporated in 2017 from parts of southwest Fulton County and includes the communities of Red Oak, Cooks Crossing, Stonewall, Fife, Be ...
(2017) * Fani Willis: First (African American) female to serve as the District Attorney for
Fulton County, Georgia Fulton County is located in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 1,066,710, making it the state's most-populous county and its only one with over o ...
(2020) * Y. Soo Jo: First Asian American (female) to serve as the County Attorney for
Fulton County, Georgia Fulton County is located in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 1,066,710, making it the state's most-populous county and its only one with over o ...
(2021) * LaVonda Reed: First African American (female) to serve as the Dean of the
Georgia State University College of Law The Georgia State University College of Law is a law school located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1982, it is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. In addition to the J ...
(2021) * Lanelle Rimes Eaves: First female lawyer in Brunswick, Georgia nowiki/>Glynn_County,_Georgia.html" ;"title="Glynn_County,_Georgia.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Glynn County, Georgia">nowiki/>Glynn County, Georgia">Glynn_County,_Georgia.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Glynn County, Georgia">nowiki/>Glynn County, Georgia* Ruth Rocker McMullin: First Vietnamese American female judge in Gwinnett County, Georgia * Ronda Colvin-Leary: First African American female elected as a Judge of the Gwinnett County State Court (2018) [Gwinnett County, Georgia] * Tiffany Porter: First African American (female) to serve as the Associate Judge of
Duluth, Georgia Duluth is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. Located north of Interstate 85, it is approximately northeast of Atlanta. As of the 2020 census, Duluth had a population of 31,873, and the United States Census Bureau estimated the ...
(2019) nowiki/>Gwinnett_County,_Georgia.html" ;"title="Gwinnett_County,_Georgia.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Gwinnett County, Georgia">nowiki/>Gwinnett County, Georgia">Gwinnett_County,_Georgia.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Gwinnett County, Georgia">nowiki/>Gwinnett County, Georgia* Tadia Whitner: First African American (female) appointed as a Judge of the Gwinnett County Superior Court (2019) * Angela D. Duncan: First openly LGBT female to serve as a Judge of the Gwinnett County Superior Court (2020) * Patsy Austin-Gatson: First African American female elected as the District Attorney of Gwinnett County, Georgia (2020) * Sandra Pak: First Korean American female judge in Gwinnett County, Georgia (2020) * Mihae Park: First Asian American female to serve as a Judge of the Gwinnett County Recorder’s Court (2021) * Pandora Palmer (1994): First female to serve as a Judge of the State Court of Henry County, Georgia (2019) * Holly Veal: First African American (female) to serve as a Judge in the Flint Judicial Circuit (Superior Court of Henry County; 2018) * Danielle P. Roberts: First African-American (female) to serve as a Judge of the State Court of Henry County, Georgia (2020) * Aretha Miller: First female lawyer in Laurens County, Georgia * Annie Anderson: First female judge in Laurens County, Georgia (1922) * Kathryn Pierce: First female to graduate from Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law in Macon-Bibb County, Georgia (1919) *
Verda Colvin Verda M. Colvin (born 1964/1965) is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia and former judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals. Education Colvin received her bachelor's degree from Sweet Briar College and her Juris Doctor from the ...
: First African American female to serve as a Judge of the Macon Judicial Circuit * Anita Reynolds Howard: First African American (female) to serve as the District Attorney in the Macon Judicial District (2021) * Nancy Calhoun (1985): First female lawyer in
Murray County, Georgia Murray County is a county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 39,973. The county seat is Chatsworth. Murray County is part of the Dalton, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, ...
* Maureen Wood: First African American (female) to serve as a Judge of the Rockland Juvenile Court (2016)


See also

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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 de ...
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Timeline of women lawyers in the United States This is a short timeline of women lawyers in the United States. Much more information on the subject can be found at: List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States * 1869 – Arabella Mansfield became the first female lawyer in the ...
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Women in law Women in law describes the role played by women in the legal profession and related occupations, which includes lawyers (also called barristers, advocates, solicitors, attorneys or legal counselors), paralegals, prosecutors (also called Distri ...


Other topics of interest

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List of first minority male lawyers and judges in the United States This is a list of the first minority male lawyer(s) and judge(s) in each state. It includes the year in which the men were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are other distinctions such as the first minority men in their stat ...
* List of first minority male lawyers and judges in Georgia


References

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