List of first women lawyers and judges in Massachusetts

• Lelia J. Robinson (1882):[1] First female lawyer in Massachusetts
• Anna Christy Fall (1891):[2] First female lawyer to argue a case before a jury in Massachusetts
• Margaret M. McChesney (1921):[3][4] First female lawyer to appear before the full bench of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1926)
• Branche E. Braxton (1923):[5] First African American female lawyer in Massachusetts. She is also the first African American female lawyer to practice in the United States District Court in Massachusetts in 1933.
• Jacqueline R. Guild Lloyd (1933):[5] First African American female lawyer to follow her father to the bar and practice law with him
• Katherine Triantafillou (1975):[6][7] First openly LGBT (female) lawyer in Massachusetts

• Emma Fall Schofield (1908) and Sadie Lipner Shulman (1911):[2] First female judges in Massachusetts (1930)
• Ethel E. Mackiernan (c. 1918):[8][9][3] First female appointed to a full judgeship and become a presiding judge in Massachusetts (c. 1930s)
• Margaret Burnham:[10][11] First African American female judge in Massachusetts (1977)
• María López (1978):[2][12] First Latino American female judge in Massachusetts (1988)
• Sabita Singh (1990):[13] First Indian American female judge in Massachusetts
• Eleanor Coe Sinnott:[14] First Korean American female judge in Massachusetts (2014)

• Jennie Loitman Barron (c. 1914):[15] First female Associate Judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court (c. 1959)

• Judith Nelson Dilday (1974):[2] First person of color appointed as a Judge of the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court (1993)

• Charlotte Anne Perretta:[16] First female to serve as a Judge of the Massachusetts Appeals Court (1978)
• Geraldine Hines:[17] First African American female to serve as a Judge of the Massachusetts Appeals Court (2013)

• Ruth Abrams:[18] First female to serve as a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1978)
• Margaret H. Marshall:[19] First female to serve as the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1999)
• Barbara Lenk (1979):[20] First openly LGBT female appointed as a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (2011)

• Indira Talwani (1988):[21] First Asian Pacific American female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (2014)
• Denise J. Casper (1994):[22] First African American female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Bankruptcy Court Carol. J. Kenner (1986)

• Martha Coakley (c. 1979):[23] First female serve as the Attorney General of Massachusetts (2007-2015)
• Maura Healey (1998):[24] First openly LGBT female to serve as the Attorney General of Massachusetts (2015)

• Emma Fall Schofield (1908):[25][26][2] First female Assistant Attorney General in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Glendora Putnam (1948):[27][28] First African American female to serve as the Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts (1964)

• Carmen Ortiz (1981):[29] First female (and Hispanic American female) to be appointed as the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts (2009)

• Elizabeth “Betsy” Scheibel:[30] First female to become a District Attorney in Massachusetts (1993)
• Rachael Rollins:[31] First African American female to become a District Attorney in Massachusetts (2018)

• Alice E. Richmond:[32] First female to serve as the President of the State Bar of Massachusetts (1986-1987)

• Harriet L. Kilbourne (1897):[33] First female admitted to the Berkshire County Bar Association [Berkshire County, Massachusetts]
• Andrea Harrington:[34] First female District Attorney for Berkshire County, Massachusetts (2018)

• Mary E. Hyde:[35] First female lawyer in Fall River, Massachusetts [Bristol County, Massachusetts]

• Elizabeth “Betsy” Scheibel:[30] First female to serve as the District Attorney for the Northwestern District in Massachusetts (1993) [Franklin and Hampshire Counties, Massachusetts]

• Elvah H. Young (1899):[36] First female lawyer in Hampden County, Massachusetts

• Elizabeth “Betsy” Scheibel:[30] First female to serve as the District Attorney for the Northwestern District in Massachusetts (1993) [Franklin and Hampshire Counties, Massachusetts]

• Martha Coakley (c. 1979):[23] First female District Attorney for Middlesex County, Massachusetts
• Ruth Abrams:[18] First female to serve as the Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex County, Massachusetts
• Haben Girma (2013):[37] First deafblind graduate (who is also female and of Eritrean-Ethiopian descent) of Harvard Law School [Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
• Arlene Hassett:[38] First female judge in Lowell, Massachusetts (1972) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]

• Anna E. Hirsch:[39] First female (a lawyer) elected as the Registrar of Probate in Norfolk County, Massachusetts (1954)

• Katherine Triantafillou (1975):[6][7] First openly LGBT (female) lawyer in Massachusetts
• Gene D. Dahmen:[40] First female President of the Boston Bar Association (1987-1988) [Suffolk County, Massachusetts]
• Rachael Rollins:[31] First female (and African American female) to become a District Attorney for Suffolk County, Massachusetts (2018)

• Stephanie Grant (1908):[41] First female admitted to the Worcester Bar Association
• Addie Gillette (1897):[41] First female lawyer to actually practice in Worchester County, Massachusetts