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


        • 1.2.1.3 Circuit Court


        • 1.2.1.4 Appellate Court


        • 1.2.1.5 Supreme Court



      • 1.2.2 Federal

        • 1.2.2.1 District Court




    • 1.3 Attorney General


    • 1.4 Assistant Attorney General


    • 1.5 State Attorney


    • 1.6 Assistant State Attorney


    • 1.7 Public Defender


    • 1.8 Bar Association



  • 2 Firsts in local history

    • 2.1 Region


    • 2.2 Alachua County


    • 2.3 Baker County


    • 2.4 Bradford County


    • 2.5 Brevard County


    • 2.6 Broward County


    • 2.7 Clay County


    • 2.8 Collier County


    • 2.9 DeSoto County


    • 2.10 Duval County


    • 2.11 Escambia County


    • 2.12 Gilchrist County


    • 2.13 Hernando County


    • 2.14 Hillsborough County


    • 2.15 Indian River County


    • 2.16 Leon County


    • 2.17 Levy County


    • 2.18 Manatee County


    • 2.19 Miami-Dade County


    • 2.20 Nassau County


    • 2.21 Okeechobee County


    • 2.22 Osceola County


    • 2.23 Palm Beach County


    • 2.24 Pinellas County


    • 2.25 Polk County


    • 2.26 Putnam County


    • 2.27 Sarasota County


    • 2.28 St. Lucie County


    • 2.29 Union County



  • 3 See also


  • 4 Other topics of interest


  • 5 References




Firsts in state history




Susan H. Black: First female county (1973), circuit (1975) and federal court (1979) judge in Florida





Rosemary Barkett: First female Justice (1985) and Chief Justice (1992) of the Florida Supreme Court




Barbara Lagoa: First Hispanic American female Justice of the Florida Supreme Court (2019)



Lawyers


  • Louise R. Pinnell (1898):[1] First female lawyer in Florida

  • Bernice Gaines (1958):[2][3][4] First African American female lawyer in Florida

  • Haley Moss (2019):[5][6] First female lawyer openly with autism in Florida


Judicial Officers



State



Judges

  • Bessie Bellinger:[7][8] First female to act in a judicial capacity in Florida (1922)


  • Edith Atkinson:[9] First female judge in Florida (1924)[10]

  • Leah Simms (1974):[11][12] First African American female judge in Florida (1981)[13]

  • Margarita Esquiroz (1974):[14][15] First Cuban American female appointed as a judge in Florida (1984)[16]


County Court


  • Susan H. Black:[17] First female county court judge in Florida (1973)

Circuit Court


  • Susan H. Black:[17] First female circuit court judge in Florida (1975)

  • Maria Korvack:[18] First Hispanic American female to serve as a Circuit Court Judge in Florida (1981)

  • Bertila Soto (1986):[19] First Cuban American female appointed as a Chief Circuit Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida (2013)

  • Maria Ruhl:[20] First Hispanic American female (and Hispanic American in general) appointed as a Judge of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of Florida (2019)

  • Kimberly C. Bonner:[21] First female to serve as the Chief Judge of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court in Florida (2019)


Appellate Court

  • Rhea Grossman:[18] First female to serve temporarily as a Judge of the District Court of Appeal (1971)

  • Anne C. Booth:[22] First female appellate court judge in Florida (1978)[23]

  • Carole Y. Taylor (1974):[24][25] First African American female appointed as a Judge of the Fourth District Court of Appeal (1998)


  • Virginia M. Hernandez Covington (1980):[26] First Cuban American female appointed as a Judge of the Florida Second District Court of Appeal (2001)

  • Bobby W. Gunther:[24] First female appointed as a Judge of the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Florida (1986)[27]


  • Barbara Lagoa (1992):[28] First Hispanic American (Cuban American) female appointed as a Judge of the Third District Court of Appeals in Florida (2006)


Supreme Court

  • Rhea Grossman:[18] First female to serve temporarily as a Justice of the Florida Supreme Court (1972)


  • Rosemary Barkett (1970):[29] First female (and Arab American and Hispanic American female) appointed as a Justice of the Florida Supreme Court (1985) and as its Chief Justice (1992)

  • Peggy A. Quince (1975):[12][30] First African American female appointed as a Justice of the Florida Supreme Court (1998)


  • Barbara Lagoa (1992):[28] First Hispanic American (Cuban American) female appointed as a Justice of the Florida Supreme Court (2019)


Federal



District Court


  • Susan H. Black:[17] First female federal judge in Florida (1979)[31]


  • Lenore Carrero Nesbitt (1960):[18] First female appointed as a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (1983)


  • Cecilia Altonaga (1983):[32] First Cuban American female appointed as a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (2003)


Attorney General



  • Pam Bondi (1990):[33] First female to serve as the Attorney General of Florida (2010)


Assistant Attorney General


  • Rebecca Bowles Hawkins (1935):[34] First female Assistant Attorney General of Florida (1948)


State Attorney



  • Janet Reno (1963):[35] First female to serve as a State Attorney in Florida (1978)


  • Aramis Ayala:[36][37] First African American female (and African American in general) to become a State Attorney in Florida (2016)


Assistant State Attorney



  • Susan H. Black:[17] First female to serve as an Assistant State Attorney in Florida (1969)


Public Defender


  • Nancy Daniels:[38][39] First female to serve as a Public Defender in Florida (1990)


Bar Association



  • Patricia A. Seitz:[40] First female to serve as President of the Florida State Bar Association (1993-1994)


Firsts in local history


Alphabetized by county name



Region



  • Ariana Fajardo Orshan:[41][42][43] First female (a former judge) appointed as a U.S. Attorney in South Florida (2018)


Alachua County


  • Stacy A. Scott:[44] First female Public Defender of the Eighth Judicial Circuit (2010) [Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Levy and Union Counties, Florida]


Baker County


  • Stacy A. Scott:[44] First female Public Defender of the Eighth Judicial Circuit (2010) [Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Levy and Union Counties, Florida]


Bradford County


  • Stacy A. Scott:[44] First female Public Defender of the Eighth Judicial Circuit (2010) [Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Levy and Union Counties, Florida]


Brevard County


  • Frances Ann Jamieson (1960):[45] First female lawyer in Brevard County, Florida


Broward County


  • Angeline Weir (1960):[24] First female County Solicitor in Broward County, Florida

  • Mildred S. Akerman (1956):[24] First female elected judge in Broward County, Florida (1959)

  • Elizabeth Athanasakos (1957):[24] First female municipal judge in Broward County, Florida (1964–1974)

  • Barbara Bridge (1964):[24] First female judge of the County Court in Broward County, Florida (1972)


Clay County


  • Kristina Mobley:[46] First female county judge in Clay County, Florida (c. 2015)


Collier County


  • Hixon Holley:[47] First female judge in Collier County, Florida


DeSoto County


  • Maria Ruhl:[20] First Hispanic American female (and Hispanic American in general) appointed as a Judge of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of Florida (2019) [DeSoto, Manatee, and Sarasota Counties, Florida]


Duval County



  • Susan H. Black:[17] First female to serve as a Judge of the Duval County Court in Florida (1973-1975)


Escambia County


  • Bessie Bellinger:[7][8] First female to act in a judicial position in Escambia County, Florida (1922)


Gilchrist County


  • Sheree H. Lancaster:[48] First female judge in Gilchrist County, Florida

  • Stacy A. Scott:[44] First female Public Defender of the Eighth Judicial Circuit (2010) [Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Levy and Union Counties, Florida]


Hernando County


  • Linda J. Treiman (1976):[49] First female lawyer in Brooksville, Florida [Hernando County, Florida]


Hillsborough County


  • Mae Wood (c. 1896):[50] First female lawyer in Hillsborough County, Florida

  • Arthenia Joyner (1969):[51] First African American female lawyer in Hillsborough County, Florida

  • Josephine Howard Stafford:[52][18] First female to serve as a Judge of the Municipal Court of Tampa, Florida (1958) [Hillsborough County, Florida]

  • Carolyn House Stewart:[53] First African American female to serve as the Assistant State Attorney of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit (1980) [Hillsborough County, Florida]


  • Susan C. Bucklew:[54][55] First female appointed as a Judge of the Hillsborough County Superior Court (1982) and circuit court judge for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Florida (1986)

  • Julianne Holt:[53] First female Public Defender of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit [Hillsborough County, Florida]


Indian River County


  • Nicole Menz:[56] First female judge in Indian River County, Florida (2018)


Leon County


  • Nancy Daniels:[38][39] First female Public Defender for Leon County, Florida (1990)


Levy County


  • Stacy A. Scott:[44] First female Public Defender of the Eighth Judicial Circuit (2010) [Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Levy and Union Counties, Florida]


Manatee County


  • Maria Ruhl:[20] First Hispanic American female (and Hispanic American in general) appointed as a Judge of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of Florida (2019) [DeSoto, Manatee, and Sarasota Counties, Florida]


Miami-Dade County



  • Edith Atkinson:[9] First female judge in Dade County, Florida (1924)


  • Gwen Cherry (1965):[57] First African American female lawyer in Dade County, Florida


  • Mattie Belle Davis:[9][58] First female to serve as a Judge of the Metropolitan Court of Dade County (1959), Florida


  • Janet Reno (1963):[35] First female to serve as a State's Attorney in Florida (1978)

  • Dixie L. Herlong Chastain:[9] First female appointed as a judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court in Dade County, Florida. She was also the sixth female judge in Florida.


Nassau County


  • Suzanne Bass:[59] First female judge in Nassau County, Florida


Okeechobee County


  • Mary Sandefur Schulman (1943):[60] First female lawyer in Okeechobee County, Florida


Osceola County


  • Gabrielle Sanders:[61] First African American female (and African American in general) judge in Osceola County, Florida (2019)


Palm Beach County


  • Anne E'del Deacon:[9] First female municipal judge in Palm Beach, Florida and fifth female judge in Florida [Palm Beach County, Florida]

  • Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes:[62] First African American female to serve as President of the Palm County Bar Association, Florida (2017)


Pinellas County


  • C. Bette Wimbish (1968):[63] First African American female lawyer in Pinellas County, Florida

  • Catherine Harlan:[64] First female county judge in Pinellas County, Florida


Polk County


  • Mada Fraser Babcock McLendon:[9] First female municipal judge in Lake Wales, Florida and third female judge in Florida [Polk County, Florida]


Putnam County


  • Mary Kennerly Buckles:[9] First female judge in Putnam County, Florida and second female judge in Florida


Sarasota County


  • Maria Ruhl:[20] First Hispanic American female (and Hispanic American in general) appointed as a Judge of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of Florida (2019) [DeSoto, Manatee, and Sarasota Counties, Florida]


St. Lucie County


  • Elsie O'Laughlin (1948):[65] First female lawyer and judge in St. Lucie County, Florida

  • Pamela Fort:[66] First African American female lawyer in Fort Pierce, Florida [St. Lucie County, Florida]


Union County


  • Stacy A. Scott:[44] First female Public Defender of the Eighth Judicial Circuit (2010) [Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Levy and Union Counties, Florida]


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 Florida


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