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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 ...
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 ...
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 Jessica R. Bear (Meshwaki Nation) [3] Meskwaki Nation Tribal Court (2007–2013; Chief Judge: 2013–present) Iowa
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.
She served as legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Walter Mondale from 1967 to 1969, then moved to Boulder, Colorado to practice law there. [6] In 1975 she was appointed Deputy Attorney General for Colorado. [7] In 1979, Dubofsky became the first female justice on the Colorado Supreme Court and the youngest person ever appointed to the court ...
She was the first female appointed as a Judge of the Court of Appeal (2008), as well as the first female magistrate appointed as an Ambassador from Barbados. Shirley Bell (1972): [2] First female to serve as a Chief Magistrate in Barbados (1991) Marie McCormack (1971): [42] [43] First female judge (1992) and Judge of the High Court (1995) in ...
She was also the first female to serve as the Public Defender for American Samoa (c. 1972-1974). Mere Tuiasosopo Betham: [4] [5] [6] First female judge (native-born) in American Samoa (1991) [7] Mitzie Jessop Taase: [8] First female to serve as the Attorney General of American Samoa (2020)
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