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Kim Shropshire: [35] First Asian American female to serve as a Judge of the 6th Judicial District (San Juan, La Plata, and Archuleta Counties, Colorado) (2022) 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 ...
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 ...
Catalina Rojas and Joaquina Vega: [240] [241] [242] First female judges in Nicaragua (1948-1949). Vega would later become the first female district court judge in Nicaragua (c. 1964). [243] Vilma Núñez de Escorcia: [244] [245] [246] First female to serve as a Judge and Vice-President of the Supreme Court of Nicaragua (1979)
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 ...
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.
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 ...