List of first women lawyers and judges in Washington

This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Washington. 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

  • Mary Leonard (1885):[1] First female lawyer in Washington
  • Reah Whitehead (1893):[2][3] First female judge in Washington (1914)
  • Bella Weretnikow Rosenbaum (1901):[4][5][6] First Jewish American female lawyer in Washington. She was also the first Jewish American female lawyer in Seattle, Washington [King County, Washington].
  • Reba Hurn (1910):[7][8][9] First female (a lawyer) elected to the Washington State Senate (1923-1930). She was also the first female lawyer in Spokane, Washington.
  • Carolyn R. Dimmick (1953):[10] First female appointed as a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court (1981)
  • Dolores Sibonga (1973):[11] First Filipino American female lawyer in Washington
  • Norma S. Huggins:[12] First African American female judge in Washington (Municipal Court, 1983; Superior Court, 1988)
  • Jenny Durkan (1986):[13] First openly LGBT female appointed as a U.S. Attorney in Washington (2009). She would later become the first openly LGBT female elected as the Mayor of Seattle, Washington (2017).
  • Laurie Jinkins (1990):[14] First openly LGBT female (a lawyer) elected as a Member of the Washington House of Representatives from the Twenty-Seventh District (2011)
  • Rosanna M. Peterson (1991):[15] First female appointed as a U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
  • Mary Yu (1993):[16] First openly LGBT female appointed as a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court (2014)

Firsts in local history

Alphabetized by county name

  • Jill Johanson:[17] First female appointed as a Judge of the Superior Court in Cowlitz County, Washington
  • Leila Robinson Sawtelle (1882):[18] First female lawyer in Seattle, Washington (King County, Washington, 1884)
  • Carmen Otero:[19] First Latino American female judge in King County, Washington
  • Jo Anne Alumbaugh (1979):[20] First female lawyer in Kittitas County, Washington
  • Joely O’Rourke:[21] First female judge in Lewis County, Washington
  • Kay Trumbull (1974):[22] First female Judge of the Superior Court in Snohomish County, Washington
  • Kathleen O’Connor (1975):[23] First female Judge of the Superior Court in Spokane County, Washington
  • Julia W. Ker (1912):[24] First female lawyer in Olympia, Washington. She was also the first female police judge in Washington and the U.S. (1926). [Thurston County, Washington]
  • Aurel M. Kelly (1949):[25] First female lawyer in Walla Walla, Washington [Walla Walla County, Washington]
  • Sandy Flores (2008):[26] First Latino American female lawyer in Walla Walla County, Washington
  • Raquel Montoya-Lewis:[27][28] First Native American (Pueblo of Isleta/Pueblo of Laguna) female judge in Whatcom County, Washington (2015)

See also

References

  1. ↑ VanBurkleo, Sandra F. (2015-11-30). Gender Remade: Citizenship, Suffrage, and Public Power in the New Northwest, 1879–1912. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316473030.
  2. ↑ Washington State Bar News. Washington State Bar Association. 1995.
  3. ↑ Vile, John R. (2003). Great American Judges: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781576079898.
  4. ↑ "First Jewish woman lawyer admitted to Washington state bar | Jewish Women's Archive". jwa.org. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  5. ↑ Abrams, Jeanne E. (November 2007). Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814707203.
  6. ↑ America, History and Life. ABC-CLIO. 2005.
  7. ↑ ""Reba" Hurn: Spokane's First Female Lawyer – Nostalgia Magazine". www.nostalgiamagazine.net. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
  8. ↑ "Landmarks: Monument dedicated to Rebecca Hurn, Spokane's first female lawyer, state's first female senator". Spokesman.com. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
  9. ↑ Clift, Eleanor; Brazaitis, Tom (2016-05-06). Madam President, Revised Edition: Women Blazing the Leadership Trail. Routledge. ISBN 9781136705243.
  10. ↑ "Carolyn Dimmick: A judge for all seasons - Legacy Washington - WA Secretary of State". Retrieved 2018-02-02.
  11. ↑ Parker, Monica R. (2010-01-01). What it Takes: How Women of Color Can Thrive Within the Practice of Law. American Bar Association. ISBN 9781590319925.
  12. ↑ "Equal Justice Newsletter: Volume 3, Number 1, March 2000". www.courts.wa.gov. Retrieved 2018-02-02.
  13. ↑ "Jenny Durkan elected mayor of Seattle, first woman to hold the office since 1926". Q13 FOX News. 2017-11-09. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  14. ↑ "Laurie Jinkins: breaking the lesbian barrier in the Washington state legislature - Shadowproof". Shadowproof. 2010-10-30. Retrieved 2018-06-08.
  15. ↑ Congress (2015-04-27). Congressional Record: Bound Volumes. INIAP Archivo Historico.
  16. ↑ Camden, Jim (May 21, 2014). "State Supreme Court Justice Mary Yu sworn in" (PDF). The Spokesman-Review.
  17. ↑ Jenkins, Don. "Court swears in first female judge". Longview Daily News. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
  18. ↑ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time. J. T. White Company. 1893.
  19. ↑ "State gets its first Latino federal judge". seattlepi.com. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  20. ↑ Cribbs, Bill. "WASHINGTON - Kittitas County - Miscellaneous Obituaries". www.genealogybuff.com. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
  21. ↑ Johnson, Natalie (January 10, 2017). "O'Rourke Sworn in as First Female Judge in Lewis County". The Chronicle. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
  22. ↑ "Kathryn Trumbull, first woman on county Superior Court, dies | HeraldNet.com". HeraldNet.com. 2017-03-24. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  23. ↑ "First female judge in Spokane County Superior Court retiring this week". Spokesman.com. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  24. ↑ Gillmore, Inez Haynes (1933). Angels and Amazons: A Hundred Years of American Women. Doubleday, Doran, Incorporated.
  25. ↑ Washington State Bar News. Washington State Bar Association. 1988.
  26. ↑ "Sandy Flores '08 is first Latina lawyer sworn into the bar in Walla Walla". Whitman College. 2012-12-03. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
  27. ↑ "Whatcom County's first Native American judge to be sworn in Friday". bellinghamherald. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  28. ↑ http://www.washingtontimes.com, The Washington Times. "Native American to be sworn in as Whatcom County judge". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
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