Tassie gets first female Supreme Court judge.(Tasmania)(Brief Article)Lower, Gavin
She was the first woman to serve on the Court. Before her tenure on the Court, she was a judge and an elected official in Arizona, serving as the first female Majority Leader of a state senate as the Republican leader in the Arizona Senate. Samuel Alito took her seat in October 2005....
BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Since the establishment of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal (UNAT) in 2009, it had never previously featured any Chinese judges on its roster. The situation remained unchanged until Gao Xiaoli, a female judge, joined the bench, becoming the first Chinese judge...
District Court Judge Sep 29, 2014 Diane Humeweta is touted as an example of bipartisanship, having been nominated by a Republican and a Democratic President to serve as the First Native American Woman in legal positions. However, the facts (see below) show that politics rules Diane Humeweta...
st Female Member]]>On July 7, 1981, President Ronald Reagan fulfilled one of his campaign promises: He appointed Judge Sandra Day O'Connor of the Arizona Court of Appeals to be the first female Justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Mostearly commentators agreed that Judge O'Connor...
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Acknowledgments This book had its genesis in the South Carolina Supreme Court Historical Society. U.S. district judge Joseph F. Anderson Jr. proposed the idea of a biographical volume on Jean Hoefer Toal to the society, and C. Mitchell B... W. Lewis Burke Jr.,JP Assey 被引量: 0发表:...
Even though she had been the first woman in any state senate to serve as majority leader, the Arizona intermediate court judge “was not as well known,” said Smith’s aide Hank Habicht. “She had no constituency”—with one important exception. Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquis...
Constance Baker Motley became the first Black woman federal judge twenty years later, in 1966. US Supreme Court Justice: Thurgood Marshall was the first Black Supreme Court Justice, serving from 1967 to 1991. First Black Female Supreme Court Justice: Ketanji Brown Jackson was appointed to the U...
a member of the Arizona Legislature and state judge before her appointment to the Supreme Court at age 51. When she first arrived, she didn't even have a place anywhere near the courtroom to go to the bathroom. That was soon rectified, but she remained the court's only woman until ...