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District Court Judge for the Chickasaw Nation; Supreme Court of the Chickasaw Nation Oklahoma: deceased: Terri Smith (Northern Arapaho Tribe) [73] Wind River Indian Reservation Tribal Court Wyoming: resigned: George W. Soule (White Earth Nation) [74] White Earth Band of Ojibwe and Prairie Island Indian Community Court of Appeals Minnesota: active
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 ...
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]
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.
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 ...
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 African American male (Colorado Supreme Court): Gregory Kellam Scott in 1992: [14] First openly gay male (district court): David Brett Woods in 2009 [15] First Latino American male (Chief Judge; Colorado Court of Appeals): Gilbert M. Román in 2021 [16] First South Asian male (superior court judge): Samir Patel in 2024 [17]
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