• Source: List of first women lawyers and judges in Maine

    • This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Maine. 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 graduate from law school or become a political figure.


    Firsts in state history




    = Law School

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    First female law graduate: Velma Peabody in 1938


    = Lawyers

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    First female: Clara Hapgood Nash (1872)
    First female (employed by Maine legislature): Gail Laughlin in 1913
    First female to argue case before Law Court: Alice Parker in 1932
    First female prosecutor: Suzanne E.K. Smith in 1972
    First Penobscot female: Jill E. Tompkins (1989)
    First Passamaquoddy female: Tina M. Farrenkopf (1997)
    First Wabanaki female: Sherri Mitchell:


    = State judges

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    First female (district court): Harriet Henry in 1973
    First female (superior court): Jessie Briggs Gunther in 1976
    First female (law court Maine Supreme Judicial Court): Caroline Duby Glassman in 1983 for the latter court
    First female (Chief Justice; Maine Supreme Judicial Court): Leigh Saufley in 2001


    = Federal judges

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    First female (federal judge): Margaret “Peggy” Kravchuk
    First female (U.S. District Court for the District of Maine): Nancy Torresen (1987) in 2011


    = Attorney General of Maine

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    First female: Janet Mills (c. 1976) in 2008


    = Deputy Attorney General

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    First female (Chief Deputy Attorney General of Maine): Vendean Vafiades


    = District Attorney

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    First female: Janet Mills (c. 1976) in 1980


    = Political Office

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    First female (Governor of Maine): Janet Mills (c. 1976) in 2018
    First Latino American female (Deputy Secretary of State for Maine): Joann Bautista in 2021


    = United States Attorney

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    First female (interim): Paula D. Silsby in 2001
    First female (permanent): Darcie N. McElwee in 2021


    = Maine State Bar Association

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    First female: Phyllis Givertz (1974) around 1983


    Firsts in local history


    Janet Mills (c. 1976): First female to serve as a District Attorney in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford Counties, Maine (1980)
    Natasha Irving: First female District Attorney for Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and Waldo Counties, Maine (2019)
    Jessie Briggs Gunther: First female to serve as a Judge of the Androscoggin County Superior Court, Maine
    Adeline Bond Rines (1914): First female lawyer in Cumberland County, Maine
    Sigrid E. Tompkins: First female to serve as the President of the Cumberland County Bar Association, Maine (1974)
    Stephanie Anderson: First female District Attorney for Cumberland County, Maine
    Paula Sawyer: First female to graduate from the University of Maine School of Law (1968) [Cumberland County, Maine]
    Agnes Robinson (1900): First female lawyer in Franklin County, Maine
    Iola S. Kearney (1920): First female lawyer in Augusta, Maine [Kennebec County, Maine]
    Shirley Cogswell: First female to serve as the Chief Justice of the Pleasant Point – Passamaquoddy Tribal Court (1980) [Washington County, Maine]


    See also


    List of first women lawyers and judges in the United StatesTimeline of women lawyers in the United StatesWomen in law


    Other topics of interest


    List of first minority male lawyers and judges in the United States
    List of first minority male lawyers and judges in Maine


    References

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