sandra day o'connor was the first woman appointed to the supreme court.
sandra day o'connor was the first woman appointed to the supreme court.
who was the first woman appointed to the supreme court?
sandra day o'connor
in 1965 and 1967, when vacancies occurred on the u.s. supreme court, senator carl hayden recommended her nomination to president lyndon b. johnson. lockwood would have become the first woman and the first arizonan to serve on the court, but she did not receive a nomination. (the first woman appointed to the court later became then-arizona court of appeals judge sandra day o'connor, who was appointed in 1981).









































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lorna e. lockwood
helen kinnear (1894 – 1970) was a canadian lawyer who was the first federally appointed woman judge in canada. she was the first woman in the british commonwealth to be created a king's counsel and the first in the commonwealth appointed to a county-court bench and the first female lawyer in canada to appear as counsel before the supreme court in canada in 1935. marie-claire kirkland-casgrain (born 1924) is a quebec lawyer, judge and politician who was the first woman elected to the legislative assembly of quebec, the first woman appointed a cabinet minister in quebec, the first woman appointed acting premier, and the first woman judge to serve in the quebec provincial court. marlys edwardh cm (born 1950) is a canadian litigation and civil rights lawyer who was one of the first women to practice criminal law in canada. roberta jamieson c.m. is a canadian lawyer and first nations activist who was the first aboriginal woman ever to earn a law degree in canada, the first non-parliamentarian to be appointed an "ex officio" member of a house of commons committee and the first woman appointed as ontario ombudsman. delia opekokew is a cree woman from the canoe lake first nation in saskatchewan, who was the first first nations lawyer admitted to the law societies in ontario and in saskatchewan as well as the first woman ever to run for the leadership of the assembly of first nations. opekokew graduated from osgoode hall in 1977, and was admitted to the bar of ontario in 1979 and to the bar of saskatchewan in 1983.
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