List of first women lawyers and judges in Missouri

"Women Who Led the Way". arch.law.wustl.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-27. This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Missouri. 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
Frankie Muse Freeman: First female (and African American female) to serve on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1964)

Lawyers
  • Lemma Barkaloo (1870):[1] First female lawyer in Missouri
  • Lois Buhl (1904):[2][3] First female (a Missouri native) to practice law in the first congressional district of Maryland. She was granted the license by Judge Shelton, and the Macon Republican reported that she stood a "very satisfactory examination" and was the only woman lawyer.
  • Frankie Muse Freeman (1937):[4][5] First female (and African American female lawyer) to serve on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1964)
  • Dorothy L. Freeman (1942):[6] First African American female lawyer in Missouri
  • Leona P. Thurman (1949):[7][8] First African American female lawyer from Missouri to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States
Judges
  • Frances Hopkins:[9][10][11] First female (non-attorney) judge in Missouri (1915)
  • Margaret Young (1931):[12][13] First female elected to Missouri's judiciary (1954)
  • Marybelle Mueller (1950):[14][15][13] First female lawyer appointed as a judge in Missouri (1955)
  • Anna Forder (1974):[9][16] First female appointed to Missouri's judiciary under the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan (1979)
  • Evelyn Marie Baker:[9][17][18] First African American female judge in Missouri (1983)[19]
Circuit Court
  • Ellen Roper (1973):[12] First female elected as a circuit court judge in Missouri (1982)[20]
  • Robin Ransom:[21] First African-American female to serve as the Presiding Judge for the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit in Missouri (2018)
Appellate Court
  • Lisa White Hardwick (1985):[22] First African American female appointed as a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals (2001)
  • Nannette Baker:[23][24] First African American female to serve as the Chief Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals (2008)
Supreme Court
  • Ann Covington (1977):[25] First female appointed to the Supreme Court of Missouri (1988) and as the Chief Justice (1993–1995)
District Court
  • Carol E. Jackson (1976):[26] First African American female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (1992) and Chief Justice (2002)

Assistant Attorney General
  • Margaret Young (1931):[12][13] First female Assistant Attorney General in Missouri

Public Defender
  • Terry Daley Schwartze:[27] First female to serve as a Public Defender in Missouri (1980)

County Prosecutor
  • Mayce Jones Maness (1929):[28][12][29] First female to serve as a County Prosecutor in Missouri (1942)

Bar Association
  • Doreen Dodson:[30] First female to serve as the President of the Missouri Bar Association
  • Dana Tippin Cutler:[31] First African American female to serve as the President of the Missouri Bar Association

Firsts in local history

Alphabetized by county name

Region

Buchanan County

Cape Girardeau County

Cass County

Clay County

Dallas County

Franklin County

Greene County

Jackson County

Laclede County

Monroe County

Pettis County

Platte County

Ralls County
  • Rosemary Straub Davison:[41][42] First female lawyer in Monroe County, Missouri and Ralls County, Missouri

Ripley County

St. Louis, City of

St. Louis County
  • Esther M. Golly (1931):[45] First female admitted to the Bar of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County. She was also the first female President of the St. Louis County Bar Association.
  • Gerre Strehlman Langton:[46] First female to serve as the Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri (1960)
  • Susan Block (1975):[12] First female elected judge in St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri
  • Gloria Clark Reno:[47] First African American female to serve as a Circuit Judge for St. Louis County, Missouri. She is also the first African American female to serve as the Presiding Judge for the 21st Judicial Circuit (2018).

Wayne County
  • Christina Kime:[48] First female judge in Wayne County, Missouri (2018)

See also

Other topics of interest

References
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