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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]
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.
A proposed water rights settlement for three Native American tribes that carries a price tag larger than any such agreement enacted by Congress took a significant step forward late Monday with ...
Out of more than 1,400 federal judges as of late last year, only four were Native American and two others identified as partially Native, according to the association. That’s less than 1% of ...
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]