query: who was the second woman appointed to the supreme court

pos: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ruth Bader Ginsburg (; born Joan Ruth Bader; March 15, 1933) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She is the second female justice (after Sandra Day O'Connor) of four to be confirmed to the court (along with Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, who are still serving). Following O'Connor's retirement, and until Sotomayor joined the court, Ginsburg was the only female justice on the Supreme Court. During that time, Ginsburg became more forceful with her

pos: Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States Court justices were males until 1981, when Ronald Reagan fulfilled his 1980 campaign promise to place a woman on the Court, which he did with the appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor. O'Connor was later joined on the Court by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1993. After O'Connor retired in 2006, Ginsburg would be joined by Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, who were successfully appointed to the Court in 2009 and 2010, respectively, by Barack Obama. The only other woman to be nominated to the Court was Harriet Miers, whose nomination to succeed O'Connor by George W. Bush

neg: Margaret Nyland investigate the adequacy of the child protection system in South Australia. In 1993 Nyland was elevated to the Supreme Court. South Australia was the first commonwealth jurisdiction to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court when Roma Mitchell was appointed in 1965. Mitchell retired as Dame Roma in 1983, and it took a further ten years before the second woman, Nyland, was appointed to the Supreme Court. Nyland was the judge in a number of high profile criminal trials, including that of Michelle Burgess and Kevin Matthews for the murder of Carolyn Matthews, Mark Errin Rust for the murders of

neg: Presidency of Bill Clinton her the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court after Sandra Day O'Connor. Harry Blackmun retired in 1994, and Clinton successfully nominated Breyer to succeed Blackmun. The appointments did not greatly affect the ideological balance of the Rehnquist Court, as conservatives continued to hold a narrow majority on the Supreme Court. Clinton also appointed 66 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals and 305 judges to the United States district courts. Among Clinton's appellate appointees were future Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, as well as Merrick Garland, who was nominated to the Supreme Court in 2016. Clinton inherited

neg: Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera Ameurfina Aguinaldo Melencio-Herrera (born 11 May 1922) served as an Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court from 1979-92. She was the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court, filling the vacancy left by the retirement of the first female Supreme Court Justice, Cecilia Muñoz-Palma. Born in Cabanatuan City to Jose P. and Carmen (née Aguinaldo) Melencio, Herrera is a granddaughter of Emilio Aguinaldo, the first President of the Philippines. Among the future Justice's baptismal godfathers was Supreme Court Justice George A. Malcolm, who also happened to be the founder of the law school she would later attend,

neg: Kaïta Kayentao Diallo Kaïta Kayentao Diallo Kaïta Kayentao Diallo is a Malian judge who served as President of the Supreme Court of Mali from 2006 until 2011. Diallo began her career as an investigating judge at the Mopti Court of First Instance in 1971. In 1985, she was the first woman appointed as a justice of the peace with extended jurisdiction in Bougouni. Diallo served as chair of the Judicial section of the Supreme Court. She was appointed President of the Supreme Court of Mali by President Amadou Toumani Touré in May 2006, beginning her term on 20 July, the first woman to

neg: Supreme Court of Puerto Rico fill three vacancies. Added to one Justice already on the Court, appointed by another pro-statehood Governor, the justices appointed by statehooders became a majority in the Court. Four women have been appointed justices since 1952; one of them, Miriam Naveira, was Chief Justice for a period of one year. Only one black, Justice Erick Kolthoff, has served in the Court. He is also the Court's only Protestant. The recently retired Chief Justice, Liana Fiol Matta, appointed by Gov. Alejandro García Padilla, was the second woman to hold the post, succeeding Federico Hernández Denton, who was appointed in 2004 by Governor

neg: Jane Mathews appointed as a part time Commissioner of the NSW Law Reform Commission from 1984 to 1989 and as head of the NSW Equal Opportunity Commission from 1985 to 1987. In addition to her legal career, Mathews was Deputy Chancellor of the University of NSW from 1992 until 1999. She was also President of the International Association of Women Judges and patron of the Women Lawyers Association of NSW. Mathews was the first woman to be appointed a judge of the NSW Supreme Court in 1987 and only the second woman in Australia to be appointed to a Supreme Court after

neg: Cynthia D. Kinser Cynthia D. Kinser Cynthia Dinah Kinser (born December 20, 1951) is a Virginia lawyer who served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Justice Kinser was elected by the Virginia General Assembly to her first 12-year term to the Virginia Supreme Court in 1998, after being appointed by Governor George Allen to fill a 1997 vacancy. Justice Kinser was elected to a second 12-year term during the 2010 session of the General Assembly. Justice Kinser became Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court on February 1, 2011. She is the first woman to hold the office of

neg: Susan P. Graber appointed on February 11, 1988, to replace judge Thomas F. Young, who had died in office. Graber served on the court of appeals until May 2, 1990. While on the bench she served as president of the Oregon Appellate Judges Association. On May 2, 1990, Graber was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court by Governor Goldschmidt to replace Robert E. Jones. However, Jones, prior to resigning his position, filed for re-election and won the election. Thus Jones resigned a second time and Goldschmidt appointed Graber a second time on January 7, 1991. She became the second woman to serve on

neg: Claire L'Heureux-Dubé Claire L'Heureux-Dubé Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, (born September 7, 1927) served as a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1987 to 2002. She was the first woman from Quebec and the second woman appointed to this position, after Bertha Wilson. Previously, she had been one of the first woman lawyers to handle divorce cases, and was the first woman appointed as a judge to the Quebec Superior Court and the Quebec Court of Appeal. During L'Heureux-Dubé's time on the country's top court, she earned a reputation as a steadfast feminist and supporter of minority rights. Because roughly 40 percent

neg: Robert D. Rucker and practiced general law in East Chicago, Indiana. Justice Rucker was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court by Governor Frank O'Bannon in 1999. He is the second African American to serve on the Supreme Court of Indiana, succeeding Myra Selby, the first African American, and the first woman to ever serve on the Supreme Court of Indiana. Justice Rucker is the only Court of Appeals judge to ever be elevated to the Supreme Court. Since his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1999 he has served on the longest continuous group of justices to serve together in the Court's long

neg: George A. Malcolm to Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera who, in 1979, became the second woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court. A collection of Malcolm's papers, including series relating to his service in the Philippines and in Puerto Rico, is housed at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan and open for research. George A. Malcolm George Arthur Malcolm (November 5, 1881 — May 16, 1961) was an American lawyer who emerged as an influential figure in the development of the practice of law in the Philippines in the 20th century. At age 35, he was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme

neg: All-Woman Supreme Court supreme court again until 1982, when on July 25 Ruby Kless Sondock became the court's first regular female justice, when she was appointed to replace Associate Justice James G. Denton who had died of a heart attack. Sondock served the remainder of Denton's term, which ended on December 31, 1982, but did not seek election to the Supreme Court in her own right. Rose Spector became the first woman elected to the court in 1992 and served until 1998 when she was defeated by Harriet O'Neill. It would be 66 years (2015) before another state high court, this time the

neg: Indu Malhotra the examination, for which she was awarded the Mukesh Goswami Memorial Prize on National Law Day. She was appointed as the Standing Counsel for the State of Haryana in the Supreme Court from 1991 to 1996. She represented various statutory corporations like Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), before the Supreme Court. In 2007, she was designated as a Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court of India. She became the second woman to be designated by the Supreme Court after a gap of

neg: Lynne J. Boomgaarden University of Wyoming College of Law. In December 2017 Governor Matt Mead appointed Boomgaarden to the Wyoming Supreme Court. Boomgaarden replaced Justice William U. Hill who retired on February 17, 2018. She was sworn into office on March 12, 2018. Boomgaarden is the third woman appointed the Wyoming Supreme Court. Lynne J. Boomgaarden Lynne J. Boomgaarden is an American judge who serves as an Associate Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court. Boomgaarden received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Wyoming in 1983 and her Juris Doctor with honor from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1991.

neg: Mary Yu was appointed by Washington Governor Jay Inslee to the Washington Supreme Court, making her the first openly LGBTQ member of the court, in addition to the first Latina-American and Asian-American. She is the 11th woman to serve on the Washington Supreme Court (and one of six currently serving), the first person of Asian descent, the third person of Hispanic descent, and the first Hispanic woman. Yu, who is openly gay, is also the first LGBT person to hold this position. Yu is one of twelve LGBT state supreme court justices currently serving in the United States. She was sworn in

neg: Noma Gurich Noma Gurich Noma D. Gurich (born September 26, 1952) is an American attorney and judge who is serving as a Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Gurich was appointed the State's highest court by Governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry in 2010 and assumed office on February 15, 2011. Gurich was appointed to the Court following the death of long-time Justice Marian P. Opala. Gurich is the third woman in state history to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Gurich was born in South Bend, Indiana. She received a bachelor's degree in political science in 1975 from Indiana State University and

neg: Rhoda Billings Rhoda Billings Rhoda Bryan Billings (born 1937) is an American lawyer and a former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Billings earned her law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1966. She served four years as a state District Court judge (1968–1972). Governor James G. Martin, a fellow Republican, appointed her to the North Carolina Supreme Court as an Associate Justice in 1985, after the resignation of Justice Earl W. Vaughn. When Chief Justice Joseph Branch retired, Martin then appointed her Chief Justice in 1986, making her the second woman to head the Court. She was

neg: Mata Tuatagaloa 55% of all cases. Mata Tuatagaloa Mata Keli Tuatagaloa is a Samoan judge. She was the first woman judge in Samoa, having been appointed to the District Court of Samoa in 2011, and has been a judge of the Supreme Court of Samoa since August 2015. New Zealand judge Ida Malosi had been the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court, however her appointment was on a temporary basis and Tuatagaloa was the first woman to be permanently appointed. Tuatagaloa was born in Samoa however she obtained her legal education in New Zealand and Australia, graduating with a

neg: Mata Tuatagaloa Mata Tuatagaloa Mata Keli Tuatagaloa is a Samoan judge. She was the first woman judge in Samoa, having been appointed to the District Court of Samoa in 2011, and has been a judge of the Supreme Court of Samoa since August 2015. New Zealand judge Ida Malosi had been the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court, however her appointment was on a temporary basis and Tuatagaloa was the first woman to be permanently appointed. Tuatagaloa was born in Samoa however she obtained her legal education in New Zealand and Australia, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from

neg: Suzanne Côté to Gerald R. Tremblay, who is also a lawyer practicing in the province of Quebec. Suzanne Côté Suzanne Côté (born September 21, 1958) is a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. She was nominated by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to replace retiring justice Louis LeBel. Prior to being appointed to the Supreme Court, she was a partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and previously Stikeman Elliott LLP in Montréal. She is the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court directly from private practice. She has wanted to be a lawyer since age 11. While her mother wanted

neg: Supreme Court of India Hegde, R. F. Nariman, U. U. Lalit, L. Nageswara Rao and Indu Malhotra—have been appointed to the supreme court directly from the bar (i.e. who were practising advocates). The supreme court saw its first woman judge when Justice M. Fathima Beevi was sworn into office in 1989. The seventh and the most recent woman judge in the court is Justice Indu Malhotra. In 1968, Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah became the first Muslim Chief Justice of India. In 2000, Justice K. G. Balakrishnan became the first judge from the "dalit" community. In 2007 he also became the first "dalit" Chief Justice of

neg: Kaïta Kayentao Diallo hold the position. She retired on 1 January 2011. In 2011, Diallo was appointed to the Appeal Tribunal of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. Kaïta Kayentao Diallo Kaïta Kayentao Diallo is a Malian judge who served as President of the Supreme Court of Mali from 2006 until 2011. Diallo began her career as an investigating judge at the Mopti Court of First Instance in 1971. In 1985, she was the first woman appointed as a justice of the peace with extended jurisdiction in Bougouni. Diallo served as chair of the Judicial section of the Supreme Court. She was appointed

neg: Anne MacKenzie (judge) to the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1996. MacKenzie was the first woman to be Associate Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia and the third person ever to be appointed to Associate Chief Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. The associate chief justice is the second-ranked judge on the province's superior trial court. In 2010, MacKenzie replaced Elizabeth Bennett as the jurist presiding over the corruption trails that resulted from the BC Legislature Raids. Anne MacKenzie (judge) Anne MacKenzie is a judge of the Court of Appeal of British Columbia since January 1, 2012.

neg: Lyn Stuart Lyn Stuart Lyn Stuart (born c. 1955) is an American jurist and the first Republican woman Chief Justice of Alabama and the second woman to hold the office. She was first appointed by Alabama Governor Kay Ivey as "acting" Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama on May 6, 2016, when her predecessor, Roy Moore, was suspended from office. At the time of her initial appointment, she had been an Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court since 2001, which was the longest tenure for any Republican in the Court's history. She had been thrice elected as an Associate

neg: Lyn Stuart Circuit Judge by Governor Fob James and re-elected without opposition in 1998. She resigned as a Circuit Judge upon her election to the Alabama Supreme Court. Stuart and her husband, George, have two sons and a daughter. Lyn Stuart Lyn Stuart (born c. 1955) is an American jurist and the first Republican woman Chief Justice of Alabama and the second woman to hold the office. She was first appointed by Alabama Governor Kay Ivey as "acting" Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama on May 6, 2016, when her predecessor, Roy Moore, was suspended from office. At the time

neg: Women in law passed on April 13, 1892, which permitted the admission of women as solicitors. Helen Kinnear (1894 – 1970) was a Canadian lawyer who was the first federally appointed woman judge in Canada. She was the first woman in the British Commonwealth to be created a King's Counsel and the first in the Commonwealth appointed to a county-court bench and the first female lawyer in Canada to appear as counsel before the Supreme Court in Canada in 1935. Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain (born 1924) is a Quebec lawyer, judge and politician who was the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec,

neg: Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera Herrera had served on the Court longer. Herrera retired in May 1992, and was named as the Chancellor of the Philippine Judicial Academy upon its inception in 1996. The Academy is tasked with the professional training of members of the Philippine judiciary. Herrera served as Chancellor until May 2009. Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera Ameurfina Aguinaldo Melencio-Herrera (born 11 May 1922) served as an Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court from 1979-92. She was the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court, filling the vacancy left by the retirement of the first female Supreme Court Justice, Cecilia Muñoz-Palma. Born in Cabanatuan City

neg: Joyce L. Kennard Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Five. Finally, in 1989, Governor George Deukmejian appointed her to the California Supreme Court. Upon taking her oath, Kennard became the second woman and the first Asian American to serve as a justice of the Court. In November 1994, she was retained by the voters in the election. During her time on the bench, Kennard has authored numerous high-profile opinions, the best-known of which is "Kasky v. Nike" (2002) In that case, the California Supreme Court held that Nike could not claim a First Amendment "commercial free speech" defense when charged with lying about

neg: James F. Byrnes build a strong political machine in the state with him. In part as a reward for his crucial support on many issues, Roosevelt appointed Byrnes an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in July 1941. He was the penultimate Justice appointed to the Supreme Court who had been admitted to practice by reading law and the last who had never attended law school. Byrnes resigned from the Court after only fifteen months to head the Office of Economic Stabilization. Byrnes' Supreme Court tenure is the second shortest of any Justice. Byrnes left the Supreme Court to head Roosevelt's Office of

neg: Florence K. Murray state senate and served from 1949 to 1956. She was the first woman to serve as a state senator in Rhode Island. She was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1952. In 1956, she was the first woman appointed as a Superior Court judge in Rhode Island. In 1978, she was appointed Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court. In November 1979, she was elected by the Rhode Island General Assembly as an associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. She was the first female supreme court justice in Rhode Island. She retired from the court

neg: Ruth Abrams Court Judge before then-Governor Michael Dukakis appointed her to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1978, the first woman on the Court. It would be another 19 years before another woman was appointed a justice to the SJC. Serving with distinction, she retired from the Court at the age of 70. Abrams is the daughter of Samuel Abrams, an attorney also a Harvard Law School graduate who had the unique distinction of being the first man in America to graduate from Harvard Law and have both a daughter and a son (George S. Abrams) to graduate from the law

neg: David Jackson (judge) Farrenkothen, by ordering that a woman who had been previously convicted of acts of bestiality be eligible for a "blue card" allowing her to work with children in Queensland, and by ordering rapist Nigel Patrick Robinson be released from custody. David Jackson (judge) The Honourable Justice David Jackson is a Judge in the Supreme Court of Queensland which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Queensland. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of Queensland on 8 October 2012. Jackson was called to the Queensland Bar in 1977 and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1990. Jackson now sits

neg: Shan Tennent the state's largest prison. The subsequent report resulted in a number of sackings, and ultimately led to the decision to completely rebuild the prison. Tennent was appointed to the Supreme Court of Tasmania on 15 March 2005 by Governor William Cox, making her the first woman to sit on the court in its 180-year history. Tennent retired with effect on 3 November 2017. Shan Tennent Shan Eve Tennent is a former Australian judge. She was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania between March 2005 and October 2017, and was the first woman to be appointed to the Court.

neg: Noma Gurich in the Oklahoma Supreme Court, following the death of Justice Marian Opala on October 11, 2010. She was sworn in on March 31, 2011. Gurich was sworn in as to serve as the third woman on the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Justice Gurich was sworn in by fellow Justice, Yvonne Kauger. Noma Gurich Noma D. Gurich (born September 26, 1952) is an American attorney and judge who is serving as a Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Gurich was appointed the State's highest court by Governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry in 2010 and assumed office on February 15, 2011. Gurich was

neg: Carolyn Simpson Carolyn Simpson Carolyn Chalmers Simpson (born 30 March 1946) was a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales for 24 years and of its Court of Appeal for nearly three. Justice Simpson made legal history in 1999 as one of three women judges who formed the first all-female bench to sit in an Australian court. In 194-year history, she is the second woman appointed to the court. Simpson was born 30 March 1946, at Forbes in the Central West of New South Wales, to William George and Janet Bower Chalmers. She received her education as a boarder at

neg: Claire L'Heureux-Dubé the Order of Canada in 2003. In 2004, she was made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, in recognition of her legal career and her contributions to equality for marginalized communities in both Quebec and Canada. Claire L'Heureux-Dubé Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, (born September 7, 1927) served as a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1987 to 2002. She was the first woman from Quebec and the second woman appointed to this position, after Bertha Wilson. Previously, she had been one of the first woman lawyers to handle divorce cases, and was the first woman appointed

neg: Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond On 5 September 2017, Hale was appointed as President of the Supreme Court, and was sworn in on 2 October 2017. She is the third person and first woman to serve the role, which was established in 2009. Hale is one of three women to have been appointed to the Supreme Court (alongside Lady Black and Lady Arden). Since July 30 2018, Hale has been a non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong. Alongside Beverley McLachlin, she is the first woman to serve in that court. Hale is Honorary President of the Cambridge University Law Society.

neg: Conchita Carpio-Morales as a Pasay City RTC judge in 1986. In 1994, then President Fidel V. Ramos appointed her to the Court of Appeals, where she eventually headed the 7th Division as Associate Justice. In 2002, upon the unanimous endorsement of the members of the Judicial and Bar Council, Carpio Morales was appointed to the Supreme Court (SC) as Supreme Court Associate Justice by then-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. She was only the tenth woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court. In "De Castro v Judicial and Bar Council (2010)", the question of whether or not then-President Arroyo was allowed to appoint

neg: Lai Siu Chiu 1994, she was sworn in as the first female High Court Judge to the Supreme Court of Singapore. She retired from the Supreme Court on October 30, 2013. In 2015, she returned to the Supreme Court when she was appointed to become a Senior Judge of the court. She was the only woman to be appointed as a Senior Judge. In 2016, Lai was inducted into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame. Lai became the first deputy chair of the Children's Charities Association in the 1980s and later became chair of the organization. Between 2006 and 2013, she was the

neg: Virginia Linder a professor at Willamette's law school. Linder was the first woman elected to the Oregon Supreme Court; all previous female justices had been appointed to fill vacancies. She was also the first ever openly lesbian member of a state supreme court anywhere in the nation and the first openly LGBT person elected as a non-incumbent to a state supreme court. When in office, she served as one of eight openly LGBT supreme court justices in the United States, alongside fellow Oregonian Rives Kistler, Colorado Supreme Court justice Monica Marquez, Hawaii Supreme Court justice Sabrina McKenna, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justice

neg: Alma Wilson "Justice Served: The Life of Alma Bell Wilson", the biography of Wilson's life. Alma Wilson Alma Wilson (1917-1999) was an Oklahoma attorney who was appointed as the second female district judge in the state of Oklahoma in 1975. In 1982, she was elevated as the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Oklahoma and between 1995 and 1997 was the first woman Chief Justice. Wilson was honored by many awards in her lifetime including induction into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and named Appellate Judge of the Year in both 1986 and

neg: Alma Wilson Alma Wilson Alma Wilson (1917-1999) was an Oklahoma attorney who was appointed as the second female district judge in the state of Oklahoma in 1975. In 1982, she was elevated as the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Oklahoma and between 1995 and 1997 was the first woman Chief Justice. Wilson was honored by many awards in her lifetime including induction into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and named Appellate Judge of the Year in both 1986 and 1989. Alma Bell and her twin Wilma were born on May 25, 1917

neg: Sandra Day O'Connor County Superior Court serving from 1975 to 1979 when she was elevated to the Arizona State Court of Appeals. She served on the Court of Appeals-Division One until 1981 when she was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan. On July 7, 1981, Reagan – who had pledged during his 1980 presidential campaign to appoint the first woman to the Court – announced he would nominate O'Connor as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to replace the retiring Potter Stewart. O'Connor received notification from President Reagan of her nomination on the day prior to the announcement and

neg: Louisiana Supreme Court Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge 1969. In 1984, she was elected District Judge for the Civil District Court for Orleans Parish. In 1994, she was elected Chief Judge of that Court. Justice Johnson began serving on the Supreme Court in 1994. She was not elected but appointed to the post after the U.S. government sued the state to insure that at least one seat on the Supreme Court be held by a minority person. The state expanded the court from six to seven seats and appointed Johnson at that time. She is the first African-American woman to

neg: Elizabeth B. Lacy Robb appointed her to the State Corporation Commission, which had judicial as well as responsibilities. She was the first woman on the SCC. After Gerald L. Baliles was elected Governor of Virginia, he appointed Lacy to the Virginia Supreme Court as discussed below. Delegate Theodore V. Morrison Jr., a lawyer from Newport News, Virginia and part-time member of the General Assembly, was nominated and confirmed to succeed her on the SCC. On November 22, 1988, Gov. Baliles appointed Lacy to the Virginia Supreme Court, and the General Assembly confirmed her appointment in due course. She was again the first woman

neg: Sujata Manohar woman judge of that court. In January, 1994, she was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay, the first woman to hold that post. In April, 1994, she was transferred as the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court, again the first woman to hold that post. At the end of 1994 (November), after 16 years as a High Court judge, she was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of India, the highest Indian court, from which post she retired in 1999. As a judge, she took a strongly independent stance, defending the rule of law

neg: Juanita Kidd Stout African-American woman in the US to be elected to a judgeship. On November 15, 1959, Justice Stout appeared on the game show "What's My Line?" from that position. She later was appointed to the Court of Common Pleas, where she specialized in homicide cases. In 1988 she was appointed to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the first African-American woman in the United States to serve on the Supreme Court of any state. That year her husband died. She served for one year before obligatory retirement at age 70. Stout died in Philadelphia in 1998. Juanita Kidd Stout Juanita Kidd Stout

neg: Margaret White (judge) Margaret White (judge) Margaret Jean White (born 4 June 1943) is a former Supreme Court of Queensland justicethe first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Queensland. White was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1992 and was elevated to an Appeals Court Justice in 2010 until retirement in 2013. She has also previously served as a law lecturer at the University of Queensland. In August 2016, White was appointed joint Commissioner with Mick Gooda for the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory, replacing Brian Ross Martin. White became an inaugural member

neg: Supreme Court of the United Kingdom the first Justice to be appointed directly to the Supreme Court. One of the former Law Lords, Lord Neuberger, was appointed to replace Clarke as Master of the Rolls, and so did not move to the new court. Lord Dyson became the 12th and final judge of the Supreme Court on 13 April 2010. In 2010, Queen Elizabeth II granted Justices who are not peers use of the title Lord or Lady, by warrant under the royal sign-manual. The Senior Law Lord on 1 October 2009, Lord Phillips, became the Supreme Court's first President, and the Second Senior Law Lord,

neg: Tahani al-Gebali Tahani al-Gebali Justice Tahani al-Gebali (, born 9 November 1950-) is the previous Vice President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt. In 2003 she was appointed by President Hosni Mubarak to her office, becoming by that the first woman to hold a judiciary position in Egypt, and she remained so until 32 Egyptian women were appointed to various judicial positions in 2007. On July 2012, The New York Times wrote that Supreme Constitutional Court Vice President Tahani al-Gebali advised the SCAF not to cede power to civilians until a constitution was written. This was denied by judge al-Gebali who

neg: Agnes Devanadera Agnes Devanadera Agnes Devanadera is the 41st Solicitor General or Attorney General of the Republic of the Philippines. She was appointed on February 22, 2007 by then-Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, succeeding Antonio Nachura who was appointed in January 2007 to the post of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Devanadera assumed office on March 2, 2007. She is the first woman to occupy the office. Before her appointment Devanadera was a Government Corporate Counsel. She also became a candidate for the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines that was being vacated by

neg: Andree Layton Roaf School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She graduated second in her class in 1978. After a year as an instructor at the law school, she went into private practice at a Little Rock law firm that became known as Walker, Roaf, Campbell, Ivory and Dunklin. In 1995 Governor Jim Guy Tucker appointed her to fill a seat on the Arkansas Supreme Court that had become vacant due to the retirement of Justice Steele Hays. She was the second woman, and the first African-American woman, to sit on the court. Prohibited by law from running for

neg: Diane Barz for Yellowstone County, Montana. In 1978, Barz was elected Montana District Court judge. In 1989, Barz was appointed associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court and was the first woman to serve on the court. In 1990, Barz resigned from the court. She then served as assistant United States Attorney and then again served as Montana District Court judge. Barz died in Billings, Montana of cancer. Diane Barz Diane MacDonald Barz (August 18, 1943 – May 14, 2014) was an American judge. She was the first woman to serve as a member of the Montana Supreme Court, a position she

neg: Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe 2002 and was created a Life Peer as Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe (Gestingthorpe is in the County of Essex). It had been mooted by some at the time that a woman might have been appointed to this position, two such names in the offing being: Baroness Hale, who was appointed to the subsequent vacancy, and Lady Arden, now a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. He and nine other Lords of Appeal in Ordinary became Justices of the Supreme Court upon that body's inauguration on 1 October 2009. Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe married Suzanne Diana Leggi in

neg: Women in law in Canada women of the day including Emily Stowe and Lady Aberdeen. With the support of the Premier, Oliver Mowat, legislation was passed on April 13, 1892, which permitted the admission of women as solicitors. Helen Kinnear (1894 – 1970) was a Canadian lawyer who was the first federally appointed woman judge in Canada. She was the first woman in the British Commonwealth to be created a King's Counsel and the first in the Commonwealth appointed to a county-court bench and the first female lawyer in Canada to appear as counsel before the Supreme Court in Canada in 1935. Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain (born

neg: Burger Court in 1971, and Nixon replaced them with Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist. In 1975, Douglas stepped down from the court, and President Gerald Ford appointed John Paul Stevens to replace him. In 1981, Stewart retired, and President Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Connor to replace him. O'Connor was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. The era of the Burger Court ended in 1986 when Burger retired. He was succeeded as Chief Justice by William Rehnquist, who was elevated to the position of Chief Justice by President Reagan. The Burger Court issued several notable rulings touching on many

neg: Pamela Tate to High Court Justice Sir Daryl Dawson. She then became one of Australia's most successful barristers in public law, appearing in a number of high-profile cases. She developed particular expertise in constitutional, administrative and commercial law. Tate was the Solicitor-General of Victoria, the state's second-highest law officer, between 2003 and 2010. She was the first woman to be appointed as Solicitor-General and the first to have been chosen after public advertisement of the position, as opposed to private selection. She was appointed to the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria on 14 September 2010. Pamela Tate Pamela

neg: Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). In 1999, Hale followed Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss to become only the second woman to be appointed to the Court of Appeal (styled The Right Honourable Lady Justice Hale), entering the Privy Council at the same time. On 12 January 2004, she was appointed the first female Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was created a life peer as Baroness Hale of Richmond, of Easby in the County of North Yorkshire, under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876. In June 2013, she was appointed as Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the

neg: Supreme Court of Texas Justices, subject to Senate confirmation, to serve out the remainder of an unexpired term until the next general election. , seven of the current Justices, a majority, were originally appointed by Governor Rick Perry. The current Justices, like all the Judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, are all Republican. The place numbers have no special meaning as all justices are elected statewide, except that the Chief Justice position is considered "Place 1". Hortense Sparks Ward, who became the first woman to pass the Texas Bar Exam in 1910, was appointed Special Chief Justice of an all-female Texas Supreme

neg: Sandra Day O'Connor High School (Arizona) Sandra Day O'Connor High School (Arizona) Sandra Day O’Connor High School, part of the Deer Valley Unified School District (DVUSD), is located just west of I-17 and north of Happy Valley Road in Phoenix, Arizona. The campus is named after former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who grew up in Arizona, served as an assistant attorney general, was member of the state senate, and eventually became the first woman appointed as a Supreme Court Justice. When confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1981, O’Connor was the only sitting member of the Court who had been elected to a public

neg: Shirley Abrahamson Shirley Abrahamson Shirley S. Abrahamson (born December 17, 1933) is an associate justice and former chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She was appointed to the court in 1976 by Governor Patrick Lucey, becoming the first woman to serve on Wisconsin's high court. She served as the only woman on the court from 1976 until 1993. Abrahamson was re-elected to the Supreme Court in 1979, 1989, 1999, and 2009. She became Chief Justice on August 1, 1996 and served in that capacity until April 29, 2015, when Patience Drake Roggensack was elected to the position. Abrahamson initiated a federal

neg: Margaret McMurdo McMurdo briefly worked as a prosecutor and a part-time member of the Criminal Justice Commission Misconduct Tribunal from 1990 until 1991. In 1991, she was the first woman to be appointed as a judge of the District Court of Queensland. She held a simultaneous commission as a judge of the Children's Court of Queensland from 1993 until 1998. She was appointed directly as president of the Queensland Court of Appeal, without having previously been a member of the Supreme Court. She served from 30 July 1998 until she resigned in October 2016. She was the first woman appointed to lead

neg: Suzanne Côté Suzanne Côté Suzanne Côté (born September 21, 1958) is a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. She was nominated by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to replace retiring justice Louis LeBel. Prior to being appointed to the Supreme Court, she was a partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and previously Stikeman Elliott LLP in Montréal. She is the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court directly from private practice. She has wanted to be a lawyer since age 11. While her mother wanted her to become a teacher, young Suzanne enjoyed reading about high profile legal cases. Côté

neg: Mavis Gibson of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Namibia. On her retirement in April 2008 she was the longest-serving member of the High Court. Mavis Gibson Mavis Gibson is a Zimbabwean lawyer and judge who was the first black woman appointed to High Court of Zimbabwe, and the first female and longest serving-justice of the High Court of Namibia. Born Mavis Gumede in Zimbabwe, Gibson was originally a journalist. In the 1970s, she was a barrister with chambers in Lincoln's Inn, London. Gibson was a Judge of the High Court of Zimbabwe for eleven years, and the country's first black woman

neg: Women in the United States judiciary in 1880, she became the first woman lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Even as women began to practice law, there were still few female judges. In 1884, the District of Columbia trial court appointed Marilla Ricker to the position of United States Commissioner. In 1886, the first woman to graduate from Pennsylvania Law School was appointed master in chancery for the city of Philadelphia. By 1907, Evanston, Illinois elected a woman, Catherine Waugh McCulloch to serve as a justice of the peace. In 1914, Georgia Bullock was appointed the "woman judge" of Los Angeles, in

neg: Miriam Naveira Miriam Naveira Miriam Naveira de Merly (July 28, 1934 – April 15, 2018) was a Puerto Rican jurist who served in the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico from 1985 to 2004. Naveira was the first woman to serve on the court as well as the first female Chief Justice (2003-2004). Naveira was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, in 1934. She obtained her Bachelor's Degree in chemistry from the College of Mount Saint Vincent and her law degree from the University of Puerto Rico. Naveira was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1985 by Governor Rafael Hernández Colón, becoming the first

neg: Margarita Argúas first woman appointed to the Argentine National Academy of Law and Social Sciences and that same year was elected as the first woman to serve as president of the International Law Association. After serving her two year term as president, she later served as vice president from 1974 to 1975 and was the president of the Argentine chapter until her death. On 7 October 1970, Argúas was appointed by President Roberto M. Levingston to the Argentine Supreme Court, to fill the remaining term of , who had died in office. With her appointment, Argúas became the first Argentine woman to

neg: Désirée Bernard the first woman to be Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Guyana. Désirée Bernard Désirée Patricia Bernard (born 2 March 1939) is a Guyanan lawyer and jurist who was the country's first female judge of the High Court in 1980 and Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court in 1992. She was appointed Chief Justice of Guyana in 1996, Chancellor of the Judiciary of Guyana and the Caribbean in 2001 and a Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice in 2005. In 2014, she was appointed to the Bermuda Court of Appeal. Bernard was born in Georgetown on 2 March

neg: Indira Banerjee was enrolled as an advocate on 5 July 1985 and practised before the Calcutta High Court. Indira Banerjee was appointed as a permanent Judge of the Calcutta High Court on 5 February 2002 and transferred to the Delhi High Court with effect from 8 August 2016. She was elevated as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court and assumed charge on 5 April 2017. Justice Banerjee succeeded Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, after he was elevated to the Supreme Court of India. She is the second woman to head the chartered

neg: Betty Roberts due to her gender, as the Chief Judge had been against the nomination of a woman to the court. Prior to completing her term on the court, Roberts resigned on February 8, 1982, when she was appointed by Governor Victor G. Atiyeh to the Oregon Supreme Court. She was appointed to replace the retiring Thomas Tongue on Oregon's highest court, where she was again the first woman on that court. She then won election to a full six-year term on the court later in 1982. In 1982, she wrote the opinion in "State v. Charles" (293 Or. 273), which adopted

neg: Jean Dubofsky undergraduate, and then got a degree from Harvard Law School in 1967. She served as legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Walter Mondale from 1967 to 1969, then moved to Boulder, Colorado to practice law there. In 1975 she was appointed Deputy Attorney General for Colorado. In 1979, Dubofsky became the first female justice on the Colorado Supreme Court and the youngest person ever appointed to the court, at age 37. She was the 11th woman to be appointed to any state supreme court. She served there until 1987. Dubofsky returned to private practice in 1988. In 1992, Colorado citizens voted

neg: Indira Banerjee High Court, after Justice Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar who headed the Court between June and November 1992. Indira Banerjee Justice Indira Banerjee is presently a Judge in the Supreme Court of India, the 8th female Judge in history and the 3rd female Judge of the Supreme Court of India at present. She was the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, the second woman to hold the postition in India. before being elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India. Indira Banerjee was born on 24 September 1957. She did her schooling at the Loreto House in Kolkata. She

neg: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines An Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines is one of 15 members of the Philippine Supreme Court, the highest court in the Philippines. The Chief Justice presides over the High Court, but carries only 1 of the 15 votes in the court. Traditionally, the Chief Justice is deemed as "primus inter pares" ("first among equals") among the Justices. Until 1973, only men were appointed as Associate Justices to the Court. Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, an appointee of President Ferdinand Marcos, was the first woman to sit on the Court. Since

neg: Mathilda Twomey Ireland, upon moving to Ireland in 1995. On 13 April 2011, she became the first female judge in Seychelles after she was sworn in as a non-resident judge; and on 18 August 2015, she also became the first woman to be appointed Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of Seychelles after she was sworn in at the State House, Victoria, succeeding Frederick Egonda-Ntende. Mathilda Twomey Mathilda Twomey (née Butler-Payette) is a Seychellois lawyer and academic. She is the first female judge in the history of Seychelles and also the first woman to be appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

neg: Moses M. Weinstein he was elected to the New York Supreme Court. In a 1973 case, acknowledging he might be violating the law, he vacated the three-year term of a woman convicted of selling drugs, noting that she had terminal cancer and less than a year to live. In 1980, he was appointed to the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, with jurisdiction over Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and seven suburban counties. He participated in rulings that threw out unjust convictions, invalidated school financing based on property taxes and decided many other controversies. He left the bench at the end of

neg: Florence Rita Arrey first woman to be appointed State Counsel in Cameroon in 1974. She was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 1984 and in 1990 became the first woman appointed Chief Justice. In 2000, she was appointed to the Supreme Court of Cameroon. Arrey was elected an ad litem Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) by the United Nations General Assembly in 2003. In 2012, she was elected Vice President of the ICTR and Judge of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals. In 2014, Arrey was appointed Director of Judicial Professions in the Ministry of Justice Cameroon. She

neg: Jane Mathews The Commission covered topics as diverse as abortion, domestic violence, the police and courts’ treatment of rape victims and discrimination faced by gays and lesbians. The Commission ran from 1974 until 1977. Following which Mathews was appointed a Crown Prosecutor in 1977. Ruth McColl described Mathews as a multiple member of the club, being the first woman appointed a judge in NSW, first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of NSW and first woman President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Mathews initial appointment as a judge was to the District Court of NSW in 1980, during which she was also

neg: Margaret Nyland entered into a law partnership with Cleland, before going into partnership with David Haines in the firm Nyland, Haines & Co which specialised in family law. Nyland was the Chair of the Commonwealth Social Security Appeals Tribunal from 1975 until 1987, Chair of the South Australian Sex Discrimination Board from 1985 until 1987 and then Deputy Chair of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal (SA). In 1987 Nyland became only the second woman to be appointed to the District Court. After her retirement from the Supreme Court, Nyland was appointed in August 2014 to conduct the Child Protection Systems Royal Commission, to

neg: Madeleine Kunin Kunin ran for her second term as governor. Her opponents were Republican Peter Plympton Smith and independent Bernie Sanders. Smith received 38 percent of the vote, Sanders 14 percent, and Kunin won with 47 percent of the vote. She is the first woman in U.S. history to have been elected governor of a U.S. state three times. As governor she focused on the environment, education, and children's issues. She appointed the first woman to the Vermont Supreme Court and created her state's family court system. She declined to seek reelection in 1990. She was a member of the administration of

neg: R. Banumathi Madras High Court. She dealt with the case on banning "Jallikattu" or bull hugging sport. In November 2013, she was transferred to the Jharkhand High Court and was appointed Chief Justice of that court at the same time. In August 2014, she was elevated to the Supreme Court of India after her name had been recommended for the post by the collegium headed by then Chief Justice of India, R M Lodha. She is only the second woman sessions judge to rise to the country's highest court. R. Banumathi R. Banumathi (born 20 July 1955) is a judge of the

neg: Ihsan Barakat Forum for Women. In December 2010, Barakat was appointed as the country's first female Attorney General, supervising sixty district attorneys, including only one other woman, and representing the government in the court of appeals. At the time she said, "The position will put to a test women's capabilities ... Some of my peers were angered by my appointment." Barakat was appointed to the Supreme Court in September 2017, making her the first woman to reach the highest position in the country's judiciary. In January 2018, she was appointed as a judge in the Cassation Court, the judicial authority over all

neg: Eva Wanasundera General and the first woman Solicitor General and first ever woman Attorney General of Sri Lanka. Eva Wanasundera served as Acting Attorney General 16 times before her appointment as Attorney General. she represented Sri Lanka at key conferences abroad. On 7 July 2012 she was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. Wanasundera, being a senior member of the Supreme Court, has acted as Chief Justice in the absence of Chief Justice K. Sripavan. She retired two months early from the Supreme Court on 14 December 2018. Eva Wanasundera Shanthi Eva Wanasundera PC (b. January 1954)

neg: Anabelle Rodriguez Law Clerk to Superior Court Judge Angel G. Hermida. In 1997 she was nominated by Bill Clinton to be U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Puerto Rico, but her nomination was rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee three times. In 2001, she was appointed Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico by Governor Sila Calderón. She worked to extend domestic violence protections to homosexual couples on the island. In 2004, Calderon appointed Rodriguez to the Supreme Court. She officially took office on August 19, 2004 becoming the third woman ever to serve in the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.

neg: Supreme Court of Texas Hattie Leah Henenberg, and Ruth Virginia Brazzil, met for five months and ultimately ruled in favor of Woodmen of the World. On July 25, 1982, Ruby Kless Sondock became the court's first regular female justice, when she was appointed to replace the Associate Justice James G. Denton who had died of a heart attack. Sondock served the remainder of Denton's term, which ended on December 31, 1982, but did not seek election to the Supreme Court in her own right. Rose Spector became the first woman elected to the court in 1992 and served until 1998 when she was defeated

neg: Ihsan Barakat Ihsan Barakat Ihsan Zuhdi Barakat (born 1964) is a Jordanian jurist who was the country's first female Attorney General and the first woman appointed to the country's Supreme Court in 2017. Barakat's mother was a teacher. She graduated from the University of Jordan in 1986. Barakat set up her own law firm in 1988, attracting high profile clients including the Central Bank of Jordan. She was appointed as a judge in 2002 at the Court of First Instance in Amman and transferred to the Appeals Court in 2004. She also served as director of the Directorate of International Relations at

neg: Ara Bartlett Ara Bartlett Ara Bartlett (born Bethany, Pennsylvania, 1825; died after 1880) was an American lawyer and judge who was the second Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Dakota Territory. Bartlett moved to Kankakee, Illinois in 1853, the second lawyer to set up practice there. By 1858 he was serving as the police magistrate in Kankakee. He was elected judge of Kankakee County in 1861, serving until he was appointed an Associate Justice of the Dakota Territory Supreme Court by president Abraham Lincoln in June 1864. In 1865 he was appointed Chief Justice by Lincoln. After his term expired,

neg: Blanche Krupansky William O'Neill, and was assistant chief counsel to the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation. Krupansky served on the Cleveland Municipal Court from 1961 to 1969. She was elected to six year terms on the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas in November 1968 and 1974. In 1976 she won election for a seat on the 8th District Court of Appeals. In 1981, Paul W. Brown resigned from the Ohio Supreme Court, and Krupansky interviewed with Governor James A. Rhodes and a group of Republicans. Rhodes appointed her effective September 1, 1981. She was the second woman to sit on the

neg: Cathy Silak Idaho, her husband's home state, in 1983. At age 40, Silak was appointed by Governor Cecil Andrus to the Court of Appeals in August 1990, the first woman to serve on Idaho's second-highest court. Less than three years later, she was elevated by Andrus to the state supreme court, succeeding Robert Bakes, and joined Linda Copple Trout as the first two women to serve on it. Silak retained her seat in the statewide election (57.7%) in May 1994, defeating Wayne Kidwell, a future colleague on the court. Six years later, she was unseated by Dan Eismann (58.6%) in May 2000,

neg: Rives Kistler his judicial career in 1999 when Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber appointed him to the Oregon Court of Appeals. He started service on that court on January 14, 1999, replacing R. William Riggs who had been elevated to the Oregon Supreme Court. Kistler served on Oregon's intermediate court of appeals until August 14, 2003, when he was himself appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court. On August 15, 2003, he was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court to replace Susan M. Leeson who had resigned. Appointed by governor Ted Kulongoski, he won election to a full six-year term in 2004, winning 60

neg: Ellen Gorman Commission. After 11 years on the District Court, Gov. Angus King appointed Gorman to the Maine Superior Court. On October 1, 2007, Gov. John Baldacci appointed her to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. She was reappointed for a second term in 2015 by Gov. Paul LePage. Gorman is a resident of Auburn, Maine. Ellen Gorman Ellen A. Gorman (born November 9, 1955) is an American attorney and judge who has been a justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court since 2007. Gorman is a graduate of Trinity College (1977) and Cornell University Law School (1982). She was admitted to the

neg: Wilhelmina Wright District Court in 2000 and in 2002 he appointed her to the Minnesota Court of Appeals, on which she served from September 3, 2002, to September 26, 2012. Governor Mark Dayton appointed Wright to the Minnesota Supreme Court on August 20, 2012, with her term beginning on September 27, 2012. She is the first African American woman to serve on the court. On April 15, 2015, President Barack Obama nominated Wright to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, to the seat vacated by Judge Michael J. Davis, who

neg: Kate M. Fox and Robert Tiedeken. Governor Mead announced on November 21, 2013, that he had selected Fox for the vacancy. She is the second woman appointed to the Wyoming Supreme Court, after Marylin S. Kite. Fox began her service on the court in January 2014. Fox won a retention election in 2016, with 76 per cent of the vote, to complete the remaining two years of Justice Voigt's term. She is eligible to run for re-election to a new eight-year term in November 2018. Kate M. Fox Kate M. Fox (born 1955) is an American lawyer and judge, who is an associate

neg: Cecilia Muñoz-Palma Cecilia Muñoz-Palma Cecilia Muñoz-Palma (November 22, 1913 — January 2, 2006) was a Filipino jurist and the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Ferdinand Marcos on October 29, 1973, and served until she reached the then-mandatory retirement age of 65. While on the Court, Muñoz-Palma penned several opinions adverse to the martial law government of her appointer, President Marcos. After retiring from the Court, she became a leading figure in the political opposition against Marcos, and was elected to the Batasang Pambansa as an Assemblywoman from Quezon

neg: Chief Justice of Canada longest serving Canadian chief justice (), and was the first woman to hold the position. The Chief Justice is appointed by the Governor General-in-Council under the federal "Supreme Court Act" on the advice of the Prime Minister. The appointment is subject to the "Supreme Court Act", which governs the administration and appointment of judges of the court. By this component of the Constitution of Canada, Judges appointed to the court must be "a judge of a superior court of a province or a barrister or advocate of at least ten years standing at the bar of a province." Tradition dictates

neg: Chief Justice of Canada official documents or receiving credentials of newly appointed high commissioners and ambassadors. The current Chief Justice is Richard Wagner, who took office on December 18, 2017, replacing Beverley McLachlin, the first woman to hold this position. Born in Montreal on April 2, 1957, he had been a puisne Supreme Court justice for at the time of his elevation to chief justice. He previously sat on the Quebec Court of Appeal. Since the Supreme Court was established in 1875, the following 18 persons have served as Chief Justice: This graphical timeline depicts the length of each justice's tenure as chief justice:

neg: Politics of Estonia Court are recommended by the Chief Justice and appointed by the Parliament. Other judges are recommended by the Supreme Court and appointed to office for life by the President. First and second instance courts are administered by the Ministry of Justice with the support of Council for Administration of Courts. The Supreme Court administers itself with the aid of self-government bodies. These include: Court "en banc", Council for Administration of Courts, Disciplinary Chamber, Judge's examination committee and Judicial Training Council. First and second order courts are headed by Chairmen, who are elected from among judges for a term of seven

neg: Ann Claire Williams to judicial, local, national, and international communities. In addition to training new federal district court judges for many years at the Federal Judicial Center, she was the first woman of color appointed to three significant positions in the federal judiciary by Chief Justices of the United States Supreme Court. Two appointments related to the Judicial Conference of the United States, the national policy-making body for the federal courts: Chair of the Court Administration and Case Management (CACM) Committee and member of the Judicial Branch Committee. She was also appointed to the Supreme Court Fellows Program Commission. Serving as Treasurer and

neg: Cheri Beasley Cheri Beasley Cheri L. Beasley (born February 14, 1966) is an Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Beasley previously served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. She was elected to the court in 2008, defeating incumbent Douglas McCullough. In that election, Beasley became the first black woman to win election to statewide office in North Carolina without first being appointed by a governor. In December 2012, Gov. Beverly Perdue appointed Beasley to the North Carolina Supreme Court, filling the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Patricia Timmons-Goodson. She was elected to a full eight-year term in

neg: Ricky Polston Since 2003, Polston has also worked as an adjunct professor at Florida State University College of Law, teaching the Florida Constitutional Law class there for several years. Governor Charlie Crist appointed Polston to the Florida Supreme Court on October 1, 2008 to replace Kenneth B. Bell, who resigned that day to return to private practice. Polston was sworn in the next day. He was the second of Crist's four appointments to the Florida Supreme Court. Justice Polston was elected unanimously to serve as Florida's 55th Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, starting July 1, 2012. Polston, who served a