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Cheryl Rowles-Stokes (1995): [36] First African American Chief Deputy District Attorney in the 18th Judicial District Office of the District Attorney (2001-2012) and first African American female judge in Arapahoe County (2012). Marsha Baer Yeager: [37] First female District Attorney and judge in Boulder County, Colorado
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Madoche Jean: [30] First African American male judge in the 17th Judicial District [Adams County, Colorado; 2020] Martin Gonzales: [31] First Hispanic American male judge in Alamosa County, Colorado (2000) James C. Flanigan: [8] [9] First African American male to serve as a Deputy District Attorney and municipal court judge in Denver, Colorado ...
Rodriguez began her legal career as an associate in the law firm of Cooper & Kelly, P.C. (now defunct) from 1988 to 1995. She served as an assistant United States attorney for the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado from 1995 to 2002, during which time she served as the deputy chief of the Civil Division from 1998 to 1999 and as chief of the civil division from 1999 to ...