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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]
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 ...
To pay homage to the rich ancestry of Native Americans, it helps to know of current-day people who share in the heritage. With that in mind, we gathered this list of 20 famous Native Americans ...
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 ...
First female landscape architect in Denver [136] Mary Rippon (1850–1935) 1985 One of the first women to become faculty at a university; taught at the University of Colorado in Boulder [137] Patricia Barela Rivera (b. 1947) 2022 Advocate for women through the promotion of public policy changes [14] Cleo Parker Robinson (b. 1948) 1989