List of first women lawyers and judges in Ohio

This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Ohio. 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
Florence Ellinwood Allen: First female Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1922)
Benita Y. Pearson: First African American female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Lawyers
Judges
  • Florence Ellinwood Allen (1914):[3] First female judge in Ohio (1920)
  • Mary B. Grossman (1912):[4] First female municipal court judge in Ohio (1923)
  • Lillian W. Burke (1951):[5][4] First African American female judge in Ohio (1969)
  • C. Ellen Connally (1971):[4] First African American female elected judge in Ohio (1979)
  • Mary Wiseman (1998):[6] First openly LGBT female judge in Ohio (2007)
  • Sherrie Mikhail Miday (2001):[7] First Egyptian American female elected judge in Ohio (2016)
  • Marilyn Zayas-Davis:[8][9][10] First Latino American female elected as judge in Ohio (2016)[11]
Common Pleas
Appellate Court
  • Marie Hoover (1994):[12] First female appointed as a Judge of the Fourth District Court of Appeals in Ohio (2012)
  • Marilyn Zayas-Davis:[8][9][10] First Latino American female elected as an appellate court judge in Ohio (2016)
Supreme Court
District Court
  • Ann Aldrich (1950):[16][17] First female to become a federal district court judge (1980)[18]
  • Benita Y. Pearson (1995):[19] First African American female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Appellate Court

Attorney General

Assistant Attorney General

Assistant United States Attorney

Bar Association
  • Kathleen Burke:[24] First female to serve as the President of the Ohio State Bar Association (1993-1994)

Firsts in local history

Alphabetized by county name

Region

Allen County

Columbiana County

Coshocton County

Cuyahoga County

Franklin County
  • Evelyn Lundberg Stratton:[32] First female elected as a Judge of the Franklin County Common Pleas Court in Ohio (1988)

Hamilton County

Henry County

Jefferson County

Knox County

Lake County
  • Addie Nye Norton:[37] First female probate judge in Lake County, Ohio (1920)
  • Irene A. Lennon (1930):[37][38] First female lawyer in Lake County, Ohio. She was also the first female to serve as the President of the Lake County Bar Association in Illinois (1950).
  • Francine Bruening:[37] First female elected as the Judge of Common Pleas in Lake County, Ohio (1991)
  • Karen Lawson:[37][39] First female to serve as the Juvenile Court Judge in Lake County, Ohio (2008)

Lawrence County

Licking County

Lorain County

Lucas County
  • Geraldine Macelwane:[43] First female to serve as a Judge of the Toledo Municipal Court (1952) as well as a Judge of the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas (1956), Ohio

Montgomery County
  • Alice McCollum:[44] First female judge of the Dayton Municipal Court (1979) [Montgomery County, Ohio]
  • Barb Gorman:[45] First female to serve as a Judge of the General Division for the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court
  • Helen Wallace:[46] First female juvenile judge for Montgomery County, Ohio (2019)

Morgan County

Perry County
  • Luann Cooperrider (1983):[48][49] First female judge in Perry County, Ohio. She was also the first female assistant prosecutor in the county's history.

Portage County
  • Barbara Watson (1980):[50] First female judge in Portage County, Ohio
  • Shirley Dubetz (1954) First practicing female attorney in Portage County, Ohio.

Richland County

Trumbull County

Tuscarawas County

Warren County

Wayne County
  • Carol White Millhoan:[57] First female judge in Wayne County, Ohio
  • Latecia E. Wiles:[58] First female to serve as a Judge of Wayne County’s Probate and Juvenile Court (2013)

Wood County
  • Molly Mack:[59] First female judge in Wood County, Ohio (2014). She is also the first female Wood County Common Pleas Court judge (2019).

See also

Other topics of interest

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