List of first women lawyers and judges in Pennsylvania

This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Pennsylvania. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to obtain a law degree or become a political figure.

Firsts in state history

  • Caroline Burnham Kilgore (1883):[1] First female lawyer in Pennsylvania
  • Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (1927):[2] First African American female lawyer in Pennsylvania
  • Anne X. Alpern (1927):[3] First female appointed as an Attorney General (1959) and Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1961)
  • Sara M. Soffel:[4][5][6] First female judge in Pennsylvania (1930) [upon her appointment to the bench in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania]
  • Hannah Elizabeth Byrd:[7][8] First female (non-attorney) magistrate in Pennsylvania (1951)
  • Norma Levy Shapiro (1951):[9][10] First female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1978)
  • Juanita Kidd Stout:[11] First African American female judge in Pennsylvania (1959)
  • Mari Carmen Aponte:[12] First Latino American female (Puerto Rican) lawyer in Pennsylvania
  • Doris Smith-Ribner (1972):[13][14] First African American female elected as a Judge of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court (1988). She was also the first African American female appointed as a Judge of the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court (1987).
  • Sandra Schultz Newman (1972):[15][16] First female elected as a Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1995)
  • Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro (1975):[17] First First openly LGBT Latino American female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2013)
  • Petrese B. Tucker (1976):[18] First African American female judge to serve as the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2013)
  • Cathy Bissoon (1993):[19] First South Asian American female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (2011)

Firsts in local history

Alphabetized by county name

  • Cynthia Baldwin:[20] First African American female judge in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (1989)
  • Debbie Kunselman:[21] First female judge in Beaver County, Pennsylvania (2005)
  • Jolene Grubb Kopriva (1978):[22] First female judge in Blair County, Pennsylvania (1987)
  • Harriet Mims:[23] First female judge in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
  • Jean Horan:[24] First female judge in Butler County, Pennsylvania
  • Helena A. Ivory (1922):[25] First female lawyer in Cambria County, Pennsylvania
  • Linda Fleming (1988):[26] First female judge in Cambria County, Pennsylvania
  • Isabel Darlington:[27] First female lawyer in Chester County, Pennsylvania
  • Paula Francisco Ott:[28][29] First female judge in Chester County, Pennsylvania (1991)
  • Shirley Ann Bellmer (1957):[30] First female lawyer in Clarion County, Pennsylvania
  • Gloria Haggerty:[31] First female lawyer in Clinton County, Pennsylvania
  • Gloria Pepicelli:[32] First female lawyer in Crawford County, Pennsylvania
  • Zanita A. Zacks-Gabriel (1975):[33] First female lawyer in Erie, Pennsylvania [Erie County, Pennsylvania]
  • Ione Romeika (1948):[34][35] First female lawyer in Fayette County, Pennsylvania
  • Nancy Vernon (1980):[36] First female judge and district attorney in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. She was also the first woman to practice criminal law in the county.[37]
  • Holly F. Moehlmann (1971):[38] First female lawyer in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
  • Mary Luella Trescott:[39] First female lawyer in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
  • Joan Marinkovits:[40] First female judge in Northampton Burough, Pennsylvania [Northampton County, Pennsylvania]
  • Hazel H. Brown:[41] First female judge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania]
  • Ann Butchart (2005):[42] First openly LGBT judge in Philadelphia and first LGBT candidate in Philadelphia [Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania]
  • Katherine Pontius Baker:[43][44] First female lawyer in Union County, Pennsylvania
  • Janine Edwards (1997):[45] First female judge in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. She was also the first female District Attorney in the county's history.

See also

References

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