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Marsha Baer Yeager: [37] First female District Attorney and judge in Boulder County, Colorado; Lolita Buckner Innis: [38] First African American (female) to serve as the Dean of the University of Colorado Law School (2021) Deni Eiring: [35] First female to serve as a Judge of the Cheyenne County Court in the 15th Judicial District (2022)
First Asian American female to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court: Emma Ping Lum (1947) around 1958 [13] [14] First Latino American female to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court: Vilma Socorro Martínez (1967) in 1977 [40] [41] First Native American female to win a U.S. Supreme Court case: Arlinda Locklear (1976) in 1983 [42] [43 ...
Meskwaki Nation Tribal Court (2007–2013; Chief Judge: 2013–present) Iowa: active: Jennifer D. Benally [4] District Court for the Navajo Nation (1984–1995) Arizona: deceased: Robert A. Blaeser (Anishinaabe) [5] Fourth Judicial District-Hennepin County (1995–2012) Minnesota: retired: Evelyne Bradley [4] Kayenta Judicial Court (1998–2014 ...
She was the first female appointed as a Judge of the Court of Appeal (2008), as well as the first female magistrate appointed as an Ambassador from Barbados. Shirley Bell (1972): [2] First female to serve as a Chief Magistrate in Barbados (1991) Marie McCormack (1971): [42] [43] First female judge (1992) and Judge of the High Court (1995) in ...
First African American female (federal judge): Constance Baker Motley (1946) in 1966 [109] [110] [111] First Italian American female (federal judge): Veronica DiCarlo Wicker [112] First African American female (court of last resort): Julia Cooper Mack (1951) in 1975 [113] First Mexican American female (federal judge): Irma Elsa Gonzalez (1973 ...
Deb Haaland had just begun her second term in the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2021, elected from her native New Mexico. She was one of the first Indigenous women to be elected to ...
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Native American identity is a complex and contested issue. The Bureau of Indian Affairs defines Native American as having American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry. Legally, being Native American is defined as being enrolled in a federally recognized tribe or Alaskan village. These entities establish their own membership rules, and they vary.