List of first women lawyers and judges in Washington D.C.
| Attorney Name | Historical Significance |
|---|---|
| Charlotte E. Ray (1872)[1] | First female (and African American) lawyer in Washington, D.C. and to practice before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (1872) |
| Marilla Ricker (1890)[2] | First female appointed as a U.S. Commissioner in Washington, D.C. (1884) |
| Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin (1914)[3][4] | First Native American (Ojibwe) female student to graduate from Washington College of Law |
| Mary O'Toole (1914)[5] | First female judge in Washington, D.C. (1921) |
| Mazellah (M.) Pearl McCall (1919):[6] | First female appointed as the Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C. (1921) |
| Burnita Shelton Matthews (1919)[7] | First female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1949) in Washington, D.C. |
| Jane Cleo Marshall Lucas (1944)[8][9] | First African American woman to teach full-time at Howard Law School, Washington, D.C. |
| Marjorie Lawson (1950)[10][11] | First African American female judge in Washington, D.C. (1962) |
| Julia Cooper Mack (1951)[12] | First African American female appointed as a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. (1975) |
| Patricia Wald (1959)[13][14] | First female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1979) |
| Norma Holloway Johnson (1962)[15] | First African American female judge appointed as a U.S. District Court Chief Judge (1997) in Washington, D.C. |
| Judith W. Rogers (1968)[16] | First African American female to serve as an Attorney General (1979) and Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1994) |
| Vanessa Ruiz (1975)[17][18] | First Hispanic female appointed as a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (1994) |
| Zinora Mitchell-Rankin (1979)[19][20] | First African American female to serve as a Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia along with her husband Judge Michael L. Rankin (1990) |
| Kara Farnandez Stoll (1997)[21] | First Latino American female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. (2015) |
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:40was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Women's Legal History | Biographical Search". Women's Legal History. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
- ^ "Mrs. Marie L. Baldwin". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
- ^ The Native American. Phoenix Indian School. 1914.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:46was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
:2was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
:47was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Banks, Taunya Lovell (2004). "SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: MARYLAND'S FIRST BLACK WOMEN LAW GRADUATES". Maryland Law Review, 63(4). Retrieved October 6, 2016.
- ^ "Jane Cleo Marshall Lucas Lecture Honoring African-American Women Leaders in the Law | Center for the Education of Women". www.cew.umich.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
- ^ "Marjorie McKenzie Lawson". Washington Post. 2002-10-16. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ^ Harley, Sharon (1996-01-19). Timetables of African-American History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in African-American History. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780684815787.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:48was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Torrington native Patricia Wald receives Presidential Medal of Freedom". New Haven Register. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ^ Lewis, Nancy (1986-07-26). "U.S. Appeals Court Here Gets First Woman Chief". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ^ staff, Los Angeles Times; reports, wire (2011-09-22). "Norma Holloway Johnson dies at 79; trailblazing former federal judge". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
- ^ "Hon. Judith W. Rogers" (PDF).
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ O'Connor, Karen (2010-08-18). Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781483305417.
- ^ Affairs, United States Congress Senate Committee on Governmental (1994). Nominations of George Opfer and Vanessa Ruiz: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session on Nominations of George Opfer, to be Inspector General, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Vanessa Ruiz, to be Associate Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, October 4, 1994. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 9780160464850.
- ^ Company, Johnson Publishing (February 1991). Ebony. Johnson Publishing Company.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:42was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Bendery, Jennifer (2015-07-09). "After Eight Months, Judicial Nominee Whom Everyone Likes Advances". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-01-18.