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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 ...
Diane Joyce Humetewa (/ ˌ h uː m ə ˈ t eɪ w ə / HOO-mə-TAY-wə; [1] born December 5, 1964) [2] [3] is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Humetewa is the first Native American woman and the first enrolled tribal member to serve as a U.S. federal judge. [4] [5] She previously ...
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 ...
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 ...
Arlinda Locklear (born 1951) is an American lawyer of Native American origin from the Lumbee tribe.Locklear, who is often cited as the first Native American woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, has actually followed in the footsteps of Lyda Conley (ca. 1869 – 1946), who was the first Native American and Native American woman admitted to argue a case before the US Supreme Court.
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