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In January 2022, the members of the council elected Sheffield to serve as council president over Mary D. Waters, succeeding Brenda Jones. [14] She became the youngest president of the council. [ 15 ] In August 2023, Sheffield set up an exploratory committee for a candidacy for mayor of Detroit in the 2025 election , hiring Nick Rathod as an ...
Betty R. Widgeon: [90] First female (and African American female) to serve as a Judge of the 14-A District Court in Washtenaw County, Michigan (1994) Martha Strickland Clark (1887): [91] First female lawyer in Detroit, Michigan [Wayne County, Michigan] Clara T. Livermore: [92] First female judge in Detroit, Michigan (1914) [Wayne County, Michigan]
Scott was elected to the Detroit City Council in 1993. [1] At the time of her death in 2002, Scott had begun her third term and was the City Council Designee on the City of Detroit General Retirement System Board of Trustees. She was the first African-American woman to serve as a trustee. [1]
Barbara Lynn McQuade [1] (born December 22, 1964) [2] is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 2010 to 2017. As part of President Donald Trump's 2017 dismissal of U.S. attorneys, she stepped down in March 2017. [3]
Sharon McPhail is an American attorney and politician who served on the Detroit City Council from 2002 until 2006. McPhail was a candidate for mayor in the 1993 and 2005 elections. She was formerly a lawyer in private practice, a division chief in the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, and an assistant United States attorney.
Kym Loren Worthy (born December 5, 1956) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the prosecutor of Wayne County, Michigan since 2004. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first African-American woman to serve as a county prosecutor in Michigan.
Karen Diane McDonald (born July 11, 1970) is an American lawyer and politician currently serving as the prosecuting attorney of Oakland County, Michigan, and formerly as a judge on Michigan's 6th Circuit Court in Oakland County. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
University of Detroit Mercy Shalina Deborah Kumar (born 1971) [ 1 ] is an American attorney from Michigan who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan .