On March 11, 1993, the Senate confirmed Reno by a vote of 98 to 0. She was sworn in the next day, becoming the first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney General.
Clara Shortridge FoltzClara Shortridge Foltz was sworn in today in Los Angeles, California, as the first female Deputy District Attorney in U.S. history.
While women in Britain were campaigning for the right to vote, Cornelia Sorabji became the first woman to practise law in India. After she received a first class degree from Bombay University in 1888, British supporters helped to send her to Oxford University.
The first woman was appointed to the federal bench nearly 140 years after the federal court system was established. Learn more about some of the pioneers who paved the way for women to follow them into the federal judiciary. Genevieve Rose Cline was the first woman named to the federal bench.
Charlotte E. RayRay, married name Charlotte E. Fraim, (born January 13, 1850, New York, New York, U.S.—died January 4, 1911, Woodside, New York), American teacher and the first black female lawyer in the United States.
Macon Bolling AllenFreedom Center honors lasting legacy of nation's first African American lawyer. CINCINNATI – Macon Bolling Allen became the first African American licensed to practice law in the United States in 1844, a full 18 years before the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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The first ever woman judge, Justice Anna Chandy had been appointed over 40 years before Seth's appointment as a High Court judge (1937). Thirteen years after becoming a High Court judge, Justice Seth became the first woman to be the Chief Justice of a High Court (1991).
Justice Adams retired December 1952; she died at her Sacramento home four years later, October 26, 1956.
An extraordinary woman and true trailblazer, Annette Abbott Adams was one of the first women school principals in California, one of the first two women to receive a law degree from the University of California, one of the first women to be admitted to the California Bar, the first woman to serve as a U.S. Attorney, the first woman appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney General, and the first woman to serve as an appellate court justice in California. She was born March 12, 1877, in Prattville, Plumas County, and attended Chico State Normal School, University of California, Berkeley (BL, 1904), and Boalt Hall (JD, 1912). Adams taught grammar school and was principal of Modoc County High School, Alturas, prior to her career in law. Admitted to the California Bar in 1912, she practiced law in Quincy, and then in San Francisco, before becoming Assistant U.S. Attorney, 1914-18, and U.S. Attorney, 1918-20. After serving as Assistant U.S. Attorney General, 1920-21, she returned to San Francisco and practiced law there until 1935, when she was appointed Assistant Special Counsel of U.S. oil litigation. In March 1942, she became California's first female appellate justice when Governor Olson appointed her Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District. Justice Adams retired December 1952; she died at her Sacramento home four years later, October 26, 1956.
Attorney for the District of South Dakota, the Honorable Karen E. Schreier.
The first U.S. Attorneys were appointed in 1789 and it was not until 129 years later that the first woman became a U.S Attorney. Her name was Annette Abbott Adams. She was appointed by the court and then nominated by President Wilson in 1918 to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California. It was not until 39 years later, in 1957, before the next woman was appointed as a U.S. Attorney, Kathleen Ruddell, who was nominated by President Eisenhower to serve in the Eastern District of Louisiana.