List of first women lawyers and judges in New Hampshire
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in New Hampshire. 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 New Hampshire's history[edit]
Lawyers[edit]
- First female: Marilla Ricker (1890)[1]
- First female litigator: Laura J. Kahn (1968)[2]
State judges[edit]
- First female (municipal court): Idella Jenness in 1935[3][4][5]
- First female: Jean K. Burling (1973) in 1979[6]
- First female (superior court): Linda S. Dalianis (1970) in 1980[7][8]
- First female (Supreme Court of New Hampshire): Linda S. Dalianis (1970) in 2000[7][8]
- First female (Chief Justice; Supreme Court of New Hampshire): Linda S. Dalianis (1970) in 2010[7][8]
- First Black female: Talesha Saint-Marc (2009) in 2023[9][10][11][12][13]
Federal judges[edit]
- First female (U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire): Landya B. McCafferty (1991) in 2013[14]
- First Black (female) (U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire): Talesha Saint-Marc (2009) in 2023[9][10][11][12]
Attorney General of New Hampshire[edit]
- First female law clerk: Jennie Blanche Newhall (1920)[15]
- First female: Kelly Ayotte (1993) from 2004-2009
Assistant Attorney General[edit]
- First female: Marilla Ricker (1890) in 1893[16]
United States Attorney[edit]
- First female: Emily Gray Rice (1984) in 2016[17][18]
Bar associations[edit]
- First female admitted (New Hampshire Bar Association): Agnes Winifred "Winnie" McLaughlin (1917)[19]
- First female presidents (New Hampshire Bar Association): Patti Blanchette and Susan B. Carbon from 1992-1993 and 1993-1994 respectively[20]
- First female president (New Hampshire Women's Bar Association): Maureen Raiche Manning in 1998[21]
First 100 women admitted to practice law in New Hampshire[22][edit]
- Agnes Winifred McLaughlin
- Jennie Blanche Newhall
- Margaret Sheehan Blodgett
- Charlotte Helen George
- Sara T. Knox
- Esther Gottesfeld Lublin
- Miriam G. Rosenblum
- Pauline Swain Merrill
- Harriet E. Mansfield
- Paula Ladday
- Florence T. Cavanaugh
- Nina N. Frankman
- Marguerita M. Hurley
- Evelyn C. Earley
- Emily Marx
- Beatrice F. Little
- Beryle M. Aldrich
- Mary Alice Fountain
- Celia D.R. Novins
- Evangeline V. Tallman
- Doris Louise Bennett
- Mary E. Perkins
- Pauline B. Barnard
- Mabelle Fellows Murphy
- Leila L. Maynard
- Ida V. C. Milligan
- Ruth I. Moses
- Margaret Quill Flynn
- Lucille Kozlowski
- Irma A. Matthews
- Catharine B. Sage
- Anne M. Howorth
- Rachel Hallett Johnson
- Caroline R. Grey
- Constance M. Mehegan
- Winnifred M. Moran
- Constance J. Betley
- Helen White
- Judith Dunlop Ransmeier
- Mary Susan Stein Leahy
- Laura Jane Kahn
- Martha Margaret Davis
- Eleanor S. Krasnow
- Susan B. Monson
- Julia N. Nelson
- Dorothy R. Sullivan
- Jean K. Burling
- Donna W. Economou
- Alexandra T. Breed
- Linda Stewart Dalianis
- Claudia Cords Damon
- Georgia C. Griffin
- Barbara Sard
- Bruce Earman Viles
- Joyce Ann Wilder
- Joan L. Carroll
- Anne Swift Almy
- Sharon Ann Coughlin
- Anne M. Goggin
- J. Campbell Harvey
- Judith Miller Kasper
- Patricia McKee
- Ellen J. Musinsky
- Brenda T. Piampiano
- Janina Stodolski
- Elizabeth B. Sullivan
- Priscilla B. Fox
- Micki B. Stiller
- Mae C. Bradshaw
- Anne Cagwin Hagstrom
- Deborah J. Cooper
- Lynne M. Dennis
- Nancy E. Ebb
- Abigail Elias
- Alice S. Love
- Stephanie T. Nute
- Elaine R. Warshell
- Catherine Ravinski
- Carolyn W. Baldwin
- Dorothy Bickford-Desmond
- Charlotte Crane
- Pamela D. Kelly
- Janine Gawryl
- Cathy J. Green
- Jody D. Handy
- Dona L. Heller
- Carolyn H. Henneman
- Constance G. Jackson
- Barbara R. Keshen
- Karin Kramer
- Jane R. Lawrence
- Ellen L. Arnold
- Lizbeth Lyons
- Elizabeth Marean Mueller
- Marilyn Billings McNamara
- Margaret B. Morin
- Nancy V. Sisemoore
- Susan Vercillo Duprey
- Lanea A. Witkus
- Nancy O. Dodge
Firsts in local history[edit]
Martha Crocker:[23] First female lawyer in Cheshire County, New Hampshire
See also[edit]
- List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States
- Timeline of women lawyers in the United States
- Women in law
Other topics of interest[edit]
- List of first minority male lawyers and judges in the United States
- List of first minority male lawyers and judges in New Hampshire
References[edit]
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- ^ a b "Saint-Marc, tapped as federal magistrate judge, poised to make history in NH". New Hampshire Public Radio. 2023-02-28. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
- ^ a b "Picked to be federal magistrate, Talesha Saint-Marc poised to make NH history". NH Business Review. 2023-03-02. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
- ^ a b "Shout Out: Talesha Saint-Marc". New Hampshire Magazine. 2023-05-01. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
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- ^ Although she was appointed at the federal level, Saint-Marc is considered the first female judge in New Hampshire's history.
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