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First (Hispanic American) female (Michigan Court of Appeals): Dorothy Comstock Riley in 1976 [9] [4] First female (Michigan Supreme Court; Chief Justice): Mary S. Coleman in 1979 [8] First Hispanic American female (Michigan Supreme Court): Dorothy Comstock Riley in 1982 [9] [4] First Hispanic American female: Patricia P. Fresard in 1998 [10 ...
Margaret Brent: first woman to act as an attorney in the United States (1648) Arabella Mansfield: first woman admitted to practice law in the United States (1869) Charlotte E. Ray: First African American female lawyer in the United States and Washington, D.C. (1872) Lyda Conley: First Native American female lawyer in the United States (1902)
First female practicing prosecuting attorney in Michigan. [278] Mary P. Sinclair (1918–2011) 1990 Authority on nuclear energy and its impact on the environment [279] Merze Tate (1905–1996) 1990 Political science scholar, author, professor at Harvard University [280] Delia Villegas Vorhauer (1940–1992) 1990 Hispanic civil rights [281 ...
Jennifer Mulhern Granholm (born February 5, 1959) is a Canadian-born American politician who was the 16th United States secretary of energy from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 47th governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011 and as the 51st attorney general of Michigan from 1999 to 2003, the first woman to hold either office.
Bridget Mary McCormack (born July 23, 1966) is an American lawyer, professor, and retired justice. She served on the Michigan Supreme Court from 2013 to 2022, first as an associate justice , and as chief justice from 2019 to 2022.
Elizabeth Eaglesfield (1853–1940) was the first woman admitted to the Indiana state bar and the first practicing female attorney in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1875. [1] She was also a Great Lakes ship captain, the owner of a fruit shipping business, and real estate magnate in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
In 2008, she represented a mother from Michigan who had been raped at the age of 12, and her rapist granted joint custody of the then 8-year-old child. [8] Upon reviewing the case, the judge rescinded his previous ruling granting convicted rapist Christopher Mirasolo joint custody, and furthermore pledged to take action to avoid a repeat of his ...
In 2015, McDonald presided over the first same-sex adoption in the history of the State of Michigan, stating that the case was a great honor. [6] McDonald was unopposed in her 2018 re-election bid, and on November 6, 2018, she was elected for a second six-year term on the 6th Circuit Court, ranking as the top vote-earner of incumbent circuit ...