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Judge Court/agency and years of service (if known) State/territory Status Abby Abinanti [1] San Francisco Superior Court (Commissioner: c. 1990 –2011; 2014–2015); Yurok Tribal Court (1997–present; Chief Judge: 2007–present) California: active: Dawn Baum [2] Yurok Tribal Court (appt. 2017-2023) California: deceased
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 ...
Phyllis J. Hamilton (1976): [104] [105] First African American female judge to serve as the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (2014) Jinsook Ohta : [ 106 ] First Asian American female (who is of Korean descent) to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (2021)
First female (Colorado Supreme Court): Jean Dubofsky (1967) in 1979 [7] First African American female: Claudia J. Jordan (1980) in 1994 [12] [13] First Hispanic American female (Fourth Judicial District Court): Theresa M. Cisneros (1983) in 1997 [14] First Hispanic American female (administrative law judge): Dolores S. Atencio in 1997 [2]
She was called to the State Bar of California in 1974. [3] [4] During the course of her legal career, Abinanti had developed the first tribal program to help members with the expungement process. In the 1990s, she began serving as a Commissioner in the Unified Family Court for the San Francisco Superior Court until retiring in 2011. From 2014 ...
Assemblymember James Ramos, D-San Bernardino, California’s first Native American state lawmaker, penned the 2021 bill that brought the monument effort to life. Gov. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the ...
Assemblymember James Ramos (D-Highland), who was the first California Native American elected to the Legislature, argued that the state needed a separate system for missing Indigenous people ...
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 served as the United States Attorney for the District of Arizona from 2007 to 2009. Humetewa is also a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.