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Lillian Exum Clement: [51] First female lawyer in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Pauline Harrison: [52] First female magistrate in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Jacqueline Grant: [53] First African American female to serve as a resident Superior Court judge in Buncombe County, North Carolina (2021). She was the first African American ...
Susie Sharp. Susie Marshall Sharp (July 7, 1907 – March 1, 1996) was an American jurist who served as the first female chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. [ 1] She was not the first woman to head the highest court in a U.S. state, but is believed to be the first woman elected to such a post in a state, like North Carolina, in ...
Elreta Alexander-Ralston ( née Melton; March 19, 1919 – March 14, 1998) was a mid-20th century black female American lawyer and judge in North Carolina at a time when there were only a handful of practicing female or black lawyers in that state. With an unusual career as a trial attorney and North Carolina District Court Judge, she has been ...
June 14, 1886. Nationality. American. Occupation. Lawyer. Parents. Quinton Holton (father) Harriet Jacobina Holland (mother) Tabitha Ann Holton (c. 1854 – June 14, 1886) [ 1][ 2] was the first woman to be licensed as a lawyer in North Carolina and in the Southern United States, in 1878.
Margaret Brent: first woman to act as an attorney in the United States (1648) Arabella Mansfield: first woman admitted to practice law in the United States (1869) Charlotte E. Ray: First African American female lawyer in the United States and Washington, D.C. (1872) Lyda Conley: First Native American female lawyer in the United States (1902)
Ruth Whitehead Whaley. Ruth Whitehead Whaley (February 2, 1901 – December 23, 1977) was the third African American woman admitted to practice law in New York in 1925 [1] and the first in North Carolina in 1933. [1] [2] She was the first Black woman to graduate from Fordham University School of Law, where she graduated cum laude in 1924.
George Washington University ( JD) Catherine Diane Caldwell Eagles (born August 30, 1958) is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina and a former Superior Court judge in Guilford County, North Carolina. She is the first female judge to serve in the Middle District.
Mia Mottley: First female Attorney General of Barbados (2001) Marie Elizabeth Bourne-Hollands (1947): [2] First female to practice law in Barbados. Norma E. Maynard-Marshall (1962): [35] First female solicitor in Barbados. Billie Miller (1969): [36] First female barrister in Barbados.