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Lawyers and Judges
Marilyn Aboussie
(Gamma Omega-Midwestern State)
Chief justice, Third
Court of Appeals, Texas (since 1998), the state’s first
woman justice (1986). First woman district judge in Tom
Green County, Texas (1983-86). Outstanding Democratic
Woman Officeholder of 1994. Chair of the State Bar of
Texas. First recipient of the Outstanding Jurist Award
by the Texas chapter of the American Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML).
Jane
H. Barrett
(Gamma Kappa-CSU/Long Beach)
Los Angeles attorney and
president of the American Bar Endowment. First woman to
serve as chairperson of the American Bar Association,
Young Lawyers Division (1980-81). First woman in 104
years to be elected to the Association’s board of
governors (1982).
Robin
Bond (Beta Tau-Indiana)
President and founder of
Transition Strategies, LLC, an
employment law firm. Robin is a contributing legal
expert for ADDitude magazine and is workplace
legal expert and employment law commentator for Sirius
Satellite Radio's "Court TV Morning Radio."
Martha DeGraff
(Omicron-Missouri)
Judge for the United States Civilian
Board of Contract Appeals since
January 6, 2007.
Carol
Manhood Huddart
(Xi-Toronto)
Appointed to the British Columbia Court of
Appeal, the highest court in the province (1996).
Appointed to County Court (1981) and Supreme Court
(1987).
Veronica "Ronni" Mathein
(Βeta Αlpha-Illinois)
Judge, Circuit Court of Cook
County, Ill., the world’s largest unified court system,
domestic relations division (since 1996).
Mary Murguia
(Gamma Delta-Kansas)
First
Latina to be a federal judge in the district of Arizona,
serving a lifetime appointment since 2001. Former
director of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys at
the Department of Justice, appointed by Janet Reno in
1991.
Dorothy Wright Nelson
(Βeta
Delta-UCLA)
Senior judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals,
Ninth Circuit, appointed in 1979 by President Jimmy
Carter (senior judge since 1995).
Winner of the American Bar
Association’s D’Alemberte/Raven Award for Outstanding
Contribution to Dispute Resolution (2000). Former
dean of the University of Southern California Law
Center. Inspired the creation of the
Dorothy Wright Nelson Justice Award at the University of
Southern California.
Mildred Davis Ramynke
(Psi-South
Dakota)
Retired judge; served for 27 years. First and
only woman to serve as a South Dakota circuit judge.
Louise Grant Smith
(Οmicron-Missouri)
First woman assistant attorney general of Missouri
(1944). Past president of Kappa Beta Pi international
law fraternity. Delegate from Missouri to the National
Women's Conference in Houston (1977).
Susan
Pierson Sonderby
(Βeta
Αlpha-Illinois)
First woman appointed to the Seventh
Circuit Court of Appeals U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern
District of Illinois. Elevated to chief
judge (1998).
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