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- On February 4, 1982, the Fairfax delegation endorsed Keenan to fill a circuit court judgeship, preparing the way for her to become the first woman circuit court judge in Virginia when she was sworn in on February 27, 1982.
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Belva Ann Lockwood: First female lawyer to practice before the Virginia federal court (1879) Barbara Milano Keenan: First female Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
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On February 25, 2015, Azcarate was elected by the Virginia General Assembly as the first female chief judge of the 19th Judicial Circuit in Virginia, and took office on July 1. [10] [11] Azcarate's predecessor, chief judge Bruce D. White, handled early, pre-trial issues related to the Depp v. Heard case.
When the Court of Appeals of Virginia was established in 1985, Keenan became the first woman to serve as judge on an appellate court in Virginia. She was elected to the Supreme Court of Virginia in 1991 and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2010.
Aug 5, 2020 · In 1991 she was nominated by President George H.W. Bush to serve as a judge on the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but her nomination, along with several others, stalled in committee when Bush’s popularity began to decline.
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O'Brien was born in 1958 in Buffalo, New York. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Le Moyne College and her Juris Doctor from Washington and Lee University School of Law.
She clerked for the Honorable Roscoe B. Stephenson Jr. of the Supreme Court of Virginiafor two years. Then Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul Ebert hired her in 1985. In 2001, she was elevated to the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court for PWC, and in 2008, she was elevated to be the first female Circuit Court Judge in th...
She was elected by the General Assembly on January 22, 2015, to an eight-year term beginning February 1, 2015. On June 15, 2015 she was invested as the 37th Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.Her current term expires in on January 31, 2023.
Jul 7, 2023 · When Hon. Judith Wheat became Chief Judge of the Arlington County Circuit Court last week, she made history on two fronts. She is the first woman Chief Judge the Circuit Court has ever had...
Jan 8, 2023 · Hampton General District Court is a case in point: All three judges — Corry N. Smith, Selena Stellute Glenn, and Tonya Henderson-Stith — are women. In fact, that court was ahead of its time: When...
