Law and Justice
Chronology
1781 Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Betts), (c1784 - 1829), an abolitionist, was the first slave to successfully sue for her freedom, encouraging Massachusetts to abolish slavery in 1781.
1872 Charlotte E. Ray (1850 - 1911), was the first permitted to practice law in the United States in 1872.
1939 Jane M. Bolin (b. 1908), was the first to be appointed as a Family Court Judge in the United States by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia in the City of New York in 1939.
1959 Juanita Kidd Stout (1919 - 1998) a judge was the first to serve on a State’s Highest Court when she was sworn in as an associate justice in Pennsylvania in 1959.
1973 Jewel S. Lafontant Mankarious (1922 - 1997), a lawyer, was the first deputy solicitor general of the United States, an appointment made by President Nixon in 1973. In 1963, she became the to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
1993 Elaine R. Jones (b. 1944), a prominent civil rights lawyer, was the first to be named director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in 1993.
Charlotte E. Ray
Juanita Kidd Stout
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