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This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Kentucky. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses)
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This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in New York. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses)
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This list of the first women lawyers and judges in each state of the United States includes the years in which the women were admitted to practice law
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U.S. statewide bar association
California Women Lawyers (CWL) is the statewide bar association for women in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Sacramento, CWL was founded in 1974
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American lawyer (c. 1869–?)
ultimately became of the family. List of first women lawyers and judges in Kentucky "White, Albert S., Sr. and Sally J. Seals". Notable Kentucky African Americans
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American lawyer and social reformer (1866–1948)
Schulman's 2009 novel The Mere Future. List of peace activists List of first women lawyers and judges in Kentucky Hammond, Claire Holton (2000). "Sophonisba
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is a list of American women's firsts, noting the first time that an American woman or women achieved a given historical feat. Inclusion on the list is reserved
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American law firm based in Los Angeles
270 lawyers, Lewis Brisbois had the most lawyers of any law firm in Los Angeles County, California. In 2014, 30% of the firm's partners were women (the
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith
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This is a list of women's firsts noting the first time that a woman or women achieved a given historical feat. A shorthand phrase for this development
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American judge (1884–1966)
justices List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States List of first women lawyers and judges in Ohio Clark, Mary L. (2004). "One Man's Token
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American judge (born 1974)
Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center. "Ford Motor Company Executive Susan D. DeClercq Sworn In As U.S. District Judge" (PDF)
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American judge (born 1937)
federal judges List of African-American jurists List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States List of United States federal judges by longevity
Amalya_Kearse
American police brutality victim (1993–2020)
woman who was shot and killed while unarmed in her Louisville, Kentucky, home by three police officers who entered under the auspices of a "no-knock" search
Breonna_Taylor
US Supreme Court justice from 1916 to 1939 (1856–1941)
Lawyers: Crusaders for Justice in American History. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-0673-0. Vile, John R., ed. (2003). Great American Judges:
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American judge (born 1948)
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City in Kentucky, United States
the first courthouse in Kentucky. The first Kentucky constitution was written and signed here. It was the first capital of Kentucky. It had the first U
Danville,_Kentucky
American judge (born 1974)
She moved to Spain and later immigrated to Louisville, Kentucky, as a child. After her arrival in the United States, her first-grade teacher helped
Ana_C._Reyes
American judge (born 1981)
district judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. He previously served as the first solicitor general of Kentucky from 2019
Chad_Meredith
American federal judge (born 1969)
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Amul_Thapar
American politician
politician, and jurist from the U.S. commonwealth of Kentucky. A member of the Republican party, Williams represented Kentucky's 16th Senate district in the Kentucky
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American judge (born 1954)
Women in State Government Network in 1995, and in 1996, she was the first-ever recipient of the Kentucky Bar Association for Women's Women Lawyers of
Janet_Stumbo
American judge (born 1971)
Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center. "Oakland County Circuit Judge Shalina Kumar Sworn In As U.S. District Judge" (PDF)
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American lawyer, politician and judge
1952) is an American LGBT advocate, lawyer, politician, and retired judge from Kentucky. Ernesto Scorsone was born in Palermo, Italy, on February 15, 1952
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American judge (born 1942)
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American judge (born 1944)
district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Naomi Reice was born in 1944 in Kingston, New York, to Mr. and Mrs
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Governor of Kentucky since 2019
29, 1977) is an American politician and attorney serving since 2019 as the 63rd governor of Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from
Andy_Beshear
American politician and attorney (born 1942)
politician and attorney who has been a United States senator from Kentucky since 1985 and has been Kentucky's senior U.S. senator since 1999. A member of the
Mitch_McConnell
Governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015
attorney and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 61st governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives
Steve_Beshear
American judge (born 1958)
and praised him for his "family devotion and willingness to perform work that it claimed Americans find undesirable." List of first women lawyers and
Judith_E._Levy
US Supreme Court justice from 1826 to 1828
August 25, 1828) was a lawyer and jurist who served as Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, as United States district judge of the United States District
Robert_Trimble
Iraqi-American judge (born 1971)
States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. She is the first Chaldean federal judge. Jarbou earned
Hala_Y._Jarbou
American judge (1917–2004)
the grounds of Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. He was there for 17 months until October 1987. Many lawyers and judges in the Nevada legal
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a judge has served on multiple courts. List of first minority male lawyers and judges in the United States List of first women lawyers and judges in the
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American politician (1807–1894)
of the South. He returned to Kentucky and successfully battled the secessionist element thereby helping to keep Kentucky in the Union. President Abraham
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American judge (born 1948)
List of female state supreme court justices List of first women lawyers and judges in Kentucky The Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, 1994. "Judge Sara
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American planter and businessman (1814–1882)
the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1848. Joshua Fry Speed was born at Farmington, Louisville, Kentucky, to Judge John Speed and Lucy Gilmer Speed
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Achievements, cultural change, and "breaking the color barrier"
"Black Women in the Judiciary". Washington Council of Lawyers. Retrieved August 10, 2025. Webster, Raymond B. (1999). African American firsts in science
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American politician
American politician and constitutional attorney serving as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives for the 66th district. A member of the Republican
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The Solicitor General of Kentucky is the top appellate lawyer of the U.S. commonwealth of Kentucky. Appointed by the Kentucky attorney general, the solicitor
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employs more than 160 lawyers in offices throughout West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Washington, D.C., and Colorado. Benjamin H.
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Vice President of the United States from 1949 to 1953
lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under President Harry S. Truman. In 1905
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African American legal association
attorneys and judges. It represents the interests of approximately 67,000 lawyers, judges, law professors, and law students. The NBA is organized around 26
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significant period of time in the Lexington, Kentucky, metropolitan area: List of University of Kentucky alumni List of people from Kentucky List of people from
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American politician (1779–1853)
of Poindexter's legal studies are not known, but according to family tradition, Poindexter studied under practicing attorneys, first in Kentucky, and
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American journalist (1814 -1893)
the recognition of women's property rights in the revised state constitution of 1851. Bolton was little known outside of Indiana, and her writings have
Sarah_T._Bolton
American intelligence officer (born 1956)
of Kentucky for three years and transferred for her senior year to the University of Louisville, where she graduated in May 1978 with a Bachelor of Science
Gina_Haspel
Last United States criminal to be publicly executed (c. 1909–1936)
executed in Kentucky. Bethea, who confessed to the rape and killing of a 70-year-old woman named Lishia Edwards, was convicted of her rape and publicly
Rainey_Bethea
US Supreme Court justice from 1914 to 1941
American lawyer and judge from Tennessee who served as United States Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson and as an associate justice of the Supreme
James_Clark_McReynolds
American television broadcast journalist (born 1945)
politician and community leader. He was Kentucky's Jefferson County Judge/Executive when he was killed in a car accident on Louisville's Interstate 64 in 1969
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is a list of people from the Louisville metropolitan area which consists of the Kentucky county of Jefferson and the Indiana counties of Clark and Floyd
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US Supreme Court justice since 2018
that judges often cannot agree on a statute if its text is ambiguous. To remedy this, he encouraged judges to first seek the "best reading" of the statute
Brett_Kavanaugh
in Kentucky since the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015. The decision, which struck down Kentucky's statutory and constitutional
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American judge (born 1949)
in 1991. Chesley, a former trial lawyer, was disbarred by the Kentucky Supreme Court in 2013. Chesley died in 2025. In 2004, Chesley purchased "what is
Susan_J._Dlott
American judge (born 1956)
youngest judges, she was elected to the district court in 1982 and re-elected in 1988. As a trial judge, Cobb took assignments from about 40 counties. In 1997
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list of U.S. county name etymologies, covering the letters J to M. Lists of U.S. county name etymologies for links to the remainder of the list List of
List of U.S. county name etymologies (J–M)
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American lawyer and activist
an American lawyer and former gymnast. She was the first woman to publicly accuse Larry Nassar, the former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics
Rachael_Denhollander
American lawyer, jurist and politician
numbers of young civil rights volunteers traveled to the U.S. South in the spring of 1964, Crockett recruited lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
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Below is a list of the names of the first woman to sit on the highest court of their respective states in the United States. The first state with a female
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Eva Mack 1983 First African American to be elected president of the National Association of Women Lawyers: Mahala Ashley Dickerson First African-American
List of African-American U.S. state firsts
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American commentator and attorney
at nearby Auburn University. He grew up in Georgetown, Kentucky. French graduated from Lipscomb University in 1991 with a B.A., summa cum laude. He then
David_French
American judge (born 1952)
who currently serves on the Michigan Supreme Court. List of African-American federal judges List of African-American jurists Hearings before the Committee
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Irish-American municipal judge (1874–1954)
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Deadly Women is an American documentary television series focusing on true crime, specifically female killers. It first aired in 2005 on the Discovery
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Post-1891 U.S. appellate circuit courts
Procedure. In a court of appeals, an appeal is almost always heard by a "panel" of three judges who are randomly selected from the available judges (including
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Topics referred to by the same term
and academic Grace White, American lawyer in 1937 (List of first women lawyers and judges in South Carolina#Beaufort County) Grace White, British Personal
Grace_White
American politician and baseball commissioner (1898–1991)
1991) was an American politician from Kentucky. He represented Kentucky in the U.S. Senate and served as its 44th and 49th governor. Aside from his political
Happy_Chandler
City in Kentucky, United States
home of Junius Ward. The home represents the height of the Greek Revival period of architecture in Kentucky and is listed on the National Register of Historic
Georgetown,_Kentucky
law formed the basis of abortion law in the colonies and the early Republic. Connecticut was the first state to regulate abortion in 1821; it outlawed abortion
Abortion_in_the_United_States
American actress and singer
co-founder of Womxn of Tomorrow, a foundation that supports and encourages women and women's rights. In 2023, she returned to Broadway, starring in The Cottage
Laura_Bell_Bundy
American serial killer (1888–1920)
killer who killed three women and one girl between 1912 and 1920 in three states and tried to kill a woman in his native Kentucky. He was executed for killing
Will_Lockett
culture emerged in western and central Kentucky, while a Fort Ancient culture developed in the east. Europeans first visited Kentucky in the late 17th century
History_of_Kentucky
American politician (born 1960)
out the remainder of his term in a 2016 special election, and was re-elected to a full term in 2018. Brown is bisexual and the first openly LGBT person
Kate_Brown
German-American Holocaust survivor and activist
Prestonsburg, Kentucky. Rosenberg was born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1931. On November 9, 1938, Kristallnacht, seven-year-old Rosenberg and his parents were
John_M._Rosenberg
of the place, or in honor of a notable person. If there is no citation for a place on this list, its etymology is usually described and referenced in
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American serial killer (1901–1949)
represent himself had been denied and that his own lawyers were against him. "I was given no chance to defend myself. My own lawyers just asked you to hang me
Jake_Bird
American diplomat
Hall of Fame. List of first women lawyers and judges in Indiana Neely, Ruth (1939). "Elsie P Austin". Women of Ohio: A Record of Their Achievements in the
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Movement within conservatism among African Americans
election in Georgia, Daniel Cameron lost the 2023 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Mark Robinson lost the 2024 North Carolina gubernatorial election and Winsome
Black conservatism in the United States
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Division of assets after the termination of a relationship
appeared earlier, in a 1927 editorial in The Odgen Standard-Examiner of Utah: "Some of the handsomest and sportiest young women in the capital belong
Palimony_in_the_United_States
Historic site in Franklin County, Kentucky
Main Street in Frankfort, Kentucky. The cemetery is the burial site of Daniel Boone, the famed frontiersman, and contains the graves of other famous
Frankfort_Cemetery
Governor of Kentucky (1838–1918)
American lawyer and politician from Kentucky. He was a member of the Democratic Party; identified with its reform wing. He represented the state in both houses
James_B._McCreary
Court of Appeals until 1970. Regardless of name used, this sub-list is limited to members of the highest court of the state. Other state judges can be
List of College of William & Mary alumni
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American murderer
murderer and the last person executed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He was executed on November 21, 2008, by lethal injection at the Kentucky State Penitentiary
Marco_Allen_Chapman
Governor of Kentucky from 2015 to 2019
businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 62nd governor of Kentucky from 2015 to 2019, losing re-election in 2019 to
Matt_Bevin
American missing person
Crystal Maria Rogers was reported missing from her home in Bardstown, Kentucky, United States, on July 5, 2015. Her car was found on a nearby highway two
Disappearance of Crystal Rogers
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American law firm
roster of lawyers and expanded into multiple global markets. In 1994, White & Case was among the first American law firms to open offices in Vietnam. Among
White_&_Case
Emirati royal and politician (born 1949)
Farm Inc. in Versailles, Kentucky, United States. His racing operations include the ownership of Darley Stables and he is the leading partner in his family's
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
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Michael G. Adams, secretary of state of Kentucky John O. Bailey, state senator and representative in Oregon, chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court F
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to the death of Antonin Scalia in February 2016. During the first eight months of his presidency, he nominated approximately 50 judges, a significantly
Donald Trump judicial appointment controversies
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