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This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Michigan.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
Ella Mae Backus (1863–1938) was an American lawyer who became the first female Assistant U.S. Attorney in the State of Michigan, and the first female attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Michigan. At the time, she was one of only six female attorneys in the entire Department of Justice. [1]
Elizabeth Eaglesfield (1853–1940) was the first woman admitted to the Indiana state bar and the first practicing female attorney in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1875. [1] She was also a Great Lakes ship captain, the owner of a fruit shipping business, and real estate magnate in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
Margaret Brent: first woman to act as an attorney in the United States (1648) Arabella Mansfield: first woman admitted to practice law in the United States (1869) Charlotte E. Ray: First African American female lawyer in the United States and Washington, D.C. (1872) Lyda Conley: First Native American female lawyer in the United States (1902)
Granholm was the governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2010. But well before leading the Great Lakes State as the first female governor, she appeared on "The Dating Game" in 1978 at only 19 years old ...
Jennifer Mulhern Granholm (born February 5, 1959) is a Canadian-born American politician who was the 16th United States secretary of energy from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 47th governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011 and as the 51st attorney general of Michigan from 1999 to 2003, the first woman to hold either office.
The first female cop in the history of a rural Michigan town who was forced to resign, alleges years of sexual harassment and assault by two fellow officers.
First African-American woman licensed to practice law in Illinois, and the third in the United States Charlotte E. Ray (1850–1911) [14] First Black American female lawyer in the United States Scovel Richardson (1912–1982) [15] Party to a housing desegregation case anticipating Shelley v. Kraemer; also a judge in federal courts from 1957