![]() ![]() Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was confirmed to the Supreme Court in June 2022, is the first Black woman and the first former federal public defender to serve on the Supreme Court. Parsons Legacy Dinner, February 24, 2020, University of Chicago Law School. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, honoree at the Third Annual Judge James B. In her three decades as a Supreme Court justice, she made the crucial deciding vote in 5-4 decisions on some of the most controversial and divisive cases of our time. She was later appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court of Appeals, where she worked for two years before President Ronald Reagan nominated her to serve on the Supreme Court. In 1969, after serving as Assistant Attorney General of Arizona, she was appointed to the Arizona State Senate and was re-elected twice. After graduation, O’Connor took a position as a deputy county attorney of San Mateo in California. A Texas native, she received her law degree from Stanford Law, where she completed law school in just two years as opposed to the usual three. In 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. She was also active in the women’s suffrage movement, becoming president and chair of the first Iowa state-wide women’s suffrage convention. ![]() Mansfield, however, never practiced law, opting to continue teaching instead. Shortly after, Iowa changed its statute and became the first state in the Union to allow women to practice law. Arabella passed the bar with high marks, certifying her as the first female lawyer in the U.S. Together, they applied for admission to the Iowa bar in 1869, despite a state law l imiting admittance to the bar to white males over the age of 21. Mansfield, a professor of natural history at Iowa Wesleyan, she joined the university’s faculty and began studying law with her husband. She started her career as a teacher, but shortly after marrying John M. (Image: Public domain)Īrabella Mansfield was the first certified female attorney in the United States. But as a staunch supporter of women’s suffrage and equality for Black women, she remained active in public affairs until her death at age 60. She moved back to her native New York to teach in public schools. Unfortunately, Ray had few clients due to prejudice against both Black people and women, and was eventually forced to close her practice. Ray” to disguise her gender and was admitted. Although her true ambition was to become a lawyer, Howard University School of Law discouraged women from enrolling. In 1872, Charlotte Ray became the first woman to graduate from Howard University School of Law, the first Black woman to practice law in the United States, and the first woman admitted to the District of Columbia bar.īefore becoming a lawyer, Ray worked at Howard University as a teacher. As a judge, she challenged discriminatory and segregationist practices, such as assigning probation officers based on race. She became the first Black woman to become a judge in 1939, and for the next 20 years she was the only Black female judge in the country. But that is just one of her long list of firsts - Bolin also went on to become the first Black woman to join the New York City Bar Association and the New York City Law Department. ![]() In 1931, Jane Bolin became the first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law School. ![]()
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