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District Court Judge for the Chickasaw Nation; Supreme Court of the Chickasaw Nation Oklahoma: deceased: Terri Smith (Northern Arapaho Tribe) [73] Wind River Indian Reservation Tribal Court Wyoming: resigned: George W. Soule (White Earth Nation) [74] White Earth Band of Ojibwe and Prairie Island Indian Community Court of Appeals Minnesota: active
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 ...
First African American female (Ohio Courts of Common Pleas): Stephanie Tubbs Jones in 1983 [8] First Latino American female: Jazmin Torres-Lugo in 2003 [9] First openly lesbian female: Mary Wiseman (1998) in 2007 [10] First Hispanic American (female) (Ohio Court of Appeals; appointed): Keila Cosme in 2009 [11]
First Chinese American female (federal judge): Dolly M. Gee (1984) in 2010 [118] First Korean American female (federal judge): Lucy H. Koh (1993) in 2010 [119] First South Asian female (federal judge): Cathy Bissoon (1993) in 2011 [120] First Filipino American female (federal judge): Lorna G. Schofield (1981) in 2012 [121]
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 ...
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.
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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.