Who was the first woman to serve on a state supreme court in the US?
Florence Ellinwood Allen was elected to the Ohio Supreme Court in 1922 and re-elected in 1928. The second woman elected to serve on a state’s highest court was Lorna E. Lockwood in 1960 in Arizona. • Who was the first woman appointed to the US federal courts? In 1934, President Roosevelt appointed Florence Ellinwood Allen of Cleveland to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Burnita Shelton Matthews was appointed in 1949 and became the first woman to serve on a US District Court in 1950. Sandra Day OConnor was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court in 1981. • Who was the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state supreme court in the US? Lorna E. Lockwood was the first woman to be elected to the Arizona Supreme Court in 1960 and joined the court in January 1961. She was selected by her peers to become Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court in 1965, the first woman Chief Justice of a state supreme court in the United States. She served on the Arizona Supreme Court until 19
