List of first women lawyers and judges in Colorado Contents Firsts in state history Firsts in local history See also Other topics of interest References Navigation menuHistory of Colorado's Women for Young PeopleHistory of Colorado's Women for Young People"Lady of the law left a lasting legacy"Colorado Water: Newsletter of the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute"A Celebration of New Mexico's First Women Lawyers""A Brief History of Women of the Colorado Supreme Court"Representative women of Colorado: a pictorial collection of the women of Colorado who have attained prominence in the social, political, professional, pioneer and club life of the State"Law School Alumni To Be Honored At Awards Banquet""Mayor honors former Judge Claudia Jordan""Judge Mary Celeste Receives the 2011 Mary Lathrop Award""My Journey to the Bench From South Korea to the Crow Reservation to Denver County Court""Dorothy Binder: 1923 - 2017""Colorado Judicial Branch - Bio""Karen Romeo named new 5th Judicial District Judge"Colorado Lawyer"Mary Mullarkey""Colo Gov OKs Lesbian Latina Supreme Court Justice""Hispanic Heritage: Accomplished judge helps students become lawyers""Norton resigns from Interior"Purely PersonalThe sum of feminine achievement: a critical and analytical study of woman's contribution to the intellectual progress of the world"Boulder public defender Megan Ring taking over state office""Sen. Veiga to leave legislature for Australia""East High to honor its 2018 Hall of Fame inductees Saturday""Denver Will Have Woman on the Bench"0746-3502"Zita Weinshienk""Wittenberg grad Denver's first female district attorney""Legal pioneer Grace Storey Merlo dies at 90"Colorado Lawyer"CITY OF GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO HISTORICALLY LANDMARKED & SIGNIFICANT PLACES""Lawrence M. Holloway""Ashley Burgemeister is Gunnison County's first female judge""2011 Judicial Excellence Award Recipients— Judge O. John Kuenhold, Judge C. Jean Stewart, Judge Christine A. Carney and Magistrate Stephanie L. Rubinstein""Fernandez-Ely chosen as new county judge""Cynthia Mitchell chosen as first female Pueblo County Attorney | Pueblo County, Colorado"
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Colorado
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Colorado. 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.
Contents
1 Firsts in state history
1.1 Lawyers
1.2 Judicial Officers
1.2.1 State
1.2.1.1 Judges
1.2.1.2 District Court
1.2.1.3 Appellate Court
1.2.1.4 Supreme Court
1.2.2 Federal
1.2.2.1 District Court
1.3 Attorney General
1.4 Assistant Attorney General
1.5 Deputy District Attorney
1.6 State Public Defender
1.7 Political Office
2 Firsts in local history
2.1 Adams County
2.2 Bloomfield County
2.3 Boulder County
2.4 Clear Creek County
2.5 Denver, City and County of
2.6 Dolores County
2.7 Eagle County
2.8 El Paso County
2.9 Garfield County
2.10 Gunnison County
2.11 Lake County
2.12 Larimer County
2.13 Montezuma County
2.14 Pitkin County
2.15 Pueblo County
2.16 Summit County
3 See also
4 Other topics of interest
5 References
Firsts in state history
Gale Norton: First female Attorney General for Colorado (1991)
Lawyers
- Mary Sternberg Thomas and Josephine M. Luthe (1891):[1] First female lawyers in Colorado
- Mary Lathrop (1897):[2] First female lawyer to practice before the U.S. District Court and the Colorado Court of Appeals (1898)
Vena Pointer (1926):[3][4] First female water lawyer in Colorado- Betty Ann Camunez (1972):[5] First Hispanic female lawyer in Colorado
Judicial Officers
State
Judges
- Ida L. Gregory:[6][7] First female judge in Colorado (1903)
- Claudia Jordan (1980):[8][9] First African American female judge in Colorado (1994)
- Mary A. Celeste:[10] First openly LGBT female judge in Colorado (2000)
- Chelsea Malone:[11] First Asian American female judge in Colorado
District Court
- Irena Ingham:[6] First female appointed as a district court judge in Colorado (1938)[12]
- Dorothy Binder (1956):[13] First female to serve as a Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial District of Colorado (1978)
- Theresa M. Cisneros (1983):[14] First Hispanic American female appointed as a Judge of the Fourth Judicial District in Colorado (1997)
- Karen Romeo:[15] First female appointed as a Judge of the Fifth Judicial District in Colorado (2008)
Appellate Court
- Aurel M. Kelly:[16] First female appointed as a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals (1974) and serve as its Chief Judge (1998)
Supreme Court
Jean Dubofsky (1967):[6] First female appointed as a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court (1979)
Mary Mullarkey:[17] First female justice to serve as the Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court (1998)
Monica Márquez (1997):[18] First openly LGBT female (and Latino American female) appointed as a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court (2010)
Federal
District Court
Christine Arguello (1980):[19] First Hispanic American female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado (2008)
Attorney General
Gale Norton (1978):[20] First female Attorney General of Colorado (1991-1999)
Assistant Attorney General
- Clara Ruth Mozzar:[21][22] First female Assistant Attorney General of Colorado (c. 1917)
Deputy District Attorney
- Dorothy Binder (1956):[13] First female to serve as a Deputy District Attorney in Colorado (1958)
State Public Defender
- Megan Ring:[23] First female to become the Colorado State Public Defender (2018)
Political Office
Jennifer Veiga (1988):[24] First openly LGBT female (a lawyer) to serve as a Member of the Colorado House of Representatives (1997-2003)
Firsts in local history
Alphabetized by county name
Adams County
- Dorothy Binder (1956):[13] First female district court judge in Adams and Bloomfield Counties, Colorado (1978)
Bloomfield County
- Dorothy Binder (1956):[13] First female district court judge in Adams and Bloomfield Counties, Colorado (1978)
Boulder County
- Marsha Baer Yeager:[25] First female District Attorney and judge in Boulder County, Colorado
Clear Creek County
- Karen Romeo:[15] First female district court judge in Clear Creek, Eagle, Lake and Summit Counties, Colorado (2008)
Denver, City and County of
- Mary Lathrop (1897):[2] First female lawyer in Denver, Colorado [Denver County, Colorado]
- Mary A. Pate:[26] First female police judge in Denver, Colorado (1910)
- Zita Weinshienk:[27] First female judge in Denver County, Colorado
- Mary A. Celeste:[10] First openly LGBT female judge appointed to the Denver County Court, Colorado (2000). She was also the first female (and openly LGBT female) to serve as the Presiding Judge of the Denver County Court (2008).
- Beth McCann:[28] First female District Attorney for Denver, Colorado (2018) [Denver County, Colorado]
Dolores County
- Grace Storey Merlo:[29] First female appointed as a Judge of the Twenty-Second Judicial Branch (1987) [Dolores and Montezuma Counties, Colorado]
Eagle County
- Karen Romeo:[15] First female district court judge in Clear Creek, Eagle, Lake and Summit Counties, Colorado (2008)
El Paso County
- Irena Ella Sweet Ingham McGarry (c. 1920s):[30] Reputed to be the first female lawyer in El Paso County, Colorado
Garfield County
- Marie Shelton Holloway:[31][32] First female judge in Garfield County, Colorado (1948–1964)
Gunnison County
- Ashley Burgemeister:[33] First female judge in Gunnison County, Colorado
Lake County
- Karen Romeo:[15] First female district court judge in Clear Creek, Eagle, Lake and Summit Counties, Colorado (2008)
Larimer County
- Christine A. Carney:[34] First female judge in Larimer County, Colorado (1998)
Montezuma County
- Grace Storey Merlo:[29] First female appointed as a Judge of the Twenty-Second Judicial Branch (1987) [Dolores and Montezuma Counties, Colorado]. She was also the first female Public Defender for Montezuma County, Colorado (1970)
Pitkin County
- Mary Johnson:[35] First female judge in Pitkin County, Colorado (c. 1960s)
Pueblo County
- Cynthia Mitchell:[36] First female Pueblo County Attorney, Colorado (2017)
Summit County
- Karen Romeo:[15] First female district court judge in Clear Creek, Eagle, Lake and Summit Counties, Colorado (2008)
See also
- List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States
- Timeline of women lawyers in the United States
- Women in law
Other topics of interest
- List of first minority male lawyers and judges in the United States
- List of first minority male lawyers and judges in Colorado
References
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