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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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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 ...
Although women had already served as trustees, with three of them in the council at the time, [1] she became the first woman elected to the position since the state government's 1792 establishment of the Shinnecock trusteeship. [5] This milestone had been celebrated by her supporters as "a return to its matriarchal leadership roots." [1]
Raquel Montoya-Lewis: [30] [31] First Native American (Pueblo of Isleta/Pueblo of Laguna) female judge in Whatcom County, Washington (2015) Sonia Rodriguez True: [ 87 ] [ 88 ] First Latino American (female) to serve as a Commissioner (2020) and Judge (2022) of the Yakima County Superior Court