This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in North America (a separate list is devoted to the United States). It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are the first women in their country to achieve a certain distinction such as graduating from law school.

KEY

Anguilla (GBR)

Antigua and Barbuda

Aruba (NLD)

Bahamas

Barbados

Mia Mottley: First female Attorney General of Barbados (2001)
  • Marie Elizabeth Bourne-Hollands (1947):[1] First female to practice law in Barbados
  • Norma E. Maynard-Marshall (1962):[36] First female solicitor in Barbados
  • Billie Miller (1969):[37] First female barrister in Barbados
  • Marie McCormack (1971):[38][39] First female judge (1971) and Judge of the High Court (1995) in Barbados
  • Shirley Bell (1972):[1] First female to serve as a Chief Magistrate in Barbados (1991)
  • Sandra Mason (1975):[36][40][41] First Barbadian woman admitted to the Barbados Bar Association. She was the first female appointed as a Judge of the Court of Appeal (2008), as well as the first female magistrate appointed as an Ambassador from Barbados.
  • Beverley Walrond (1974):[42][43] First female to serve as the President of the Barbados Bar Association
  • Kaye Goodridge:[1] First female to serve as the Solicitor General of Barbados (1996)
  • Mia Mottley (1986):[44] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Barbados (2001)
  • Donna Babb-Agard:[45] First female appointed as deputy director of Public Prosecutions in Barbados (2005)

Belize

Bermuda (GBR)

  • Lois Browne-Evans (1953):[53][54] First female lawyer in Bermuda, as well as Bermuda's first female Attorney General (1999)
  • Priya De Soya:[55] First female to become Crown Counsel in Bermuda (1976)
  • Dianna Kempe (1970):[56] First female lawyer to become Queen's Counsel (QC) in Bermuda (2000)
  • Norma Wade-Miller (1977):[57][58][59][60] First female magistrate in Bermuda. She was also the first female Judge of the High Court, Justice of the Supreme Court of Bermuda and Acting Chief Justice in Bermuda.
  • Patricia Dangor:[61] First female to serve as a Judge of the Bermuda Court of Appeals (2014)
  • Karen Williams-Smith:[62] First Black female to serve as the President of the Bermuda Bar Association (2017)
  • Cindy Clarke:[63] First female to serve as the Director of Public Prosecutions in Bermuda (2020)

Bonaire (NLD)

British Virgin Islands (GBR)

Dancia Penn: First female lawyer in the British Virgin Islands

Canada

Clara Brett Martin: First female lawyer in Canada (1897)
  • Clara Brett Martin (1897):[69][70] First female lawyer in Canada (upon being called to the Ontario Bar)
  • Alice Jamieson and Emily Murphy:[71][72][73][74][75] First female judges in Canada (Alberta; 1914–1916)
  • Helen Kinnear (1920):[76][77] First female appointed as a judge by the Government of Canada (1943). She was also the first female lawyer in the British Commonwealth to become a King's Counsel (1934) and to argue a case before the Supreme Court of Canada (1935)
  • Violet King Henry (1954):[78] First Black female lawyer in Canada
  • Constance Glube (1956):[79][80] First female appointed as a Chief Justice in Canada (1982). She was also the first female appointed as a Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
  • Gabrielle Vallée (1954):[81] First female appointed as the Associate Chief Justice of a Superior Court of Canada (1976)
  • Réjane Laberge-Colas (1957):[82] First female appointed as a Judge of the Superior Court in Canada (1969)
  • Beverley McLachlin (1969):[83][84][85] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of Canada (2000-2017). She was also the first female appointed as a Judge of the British Columbia Court of Appeal (1985) and Chief Justice of the British Columbia Supreme Court (1988).
  • Marion Ironquil Meadmore (1977):[86] First indigenous female lawyer in Canada
  • Bertha Wilson (c. 1950s):[87][88][89] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court in Canada (1982). She was also the first female to sit on the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1975.
  • Kim Campbell (1984):[90][91] First female Attorney General of Canada (1990-1993)
  • Corrine Sparks:[92] First Black female judge in Canada (upon her appointment as a Judge of the Nova Scotia Family Court in 1987)
  • Rose Boyko:[93] First aboriginal woman appointed as a superior court judge in Canada (1994)
  • Vivene Salmon:[94][95] First Black (female) President of the Canadian Bar Association (2019)

Cayman Islands (GBR)

  • Adrianne Webb (1975):[96][97] First female lawyer in the Cayman Islands
  • Theresa Lewis Pitcairn:[98] First female to serve as the President of the Caymanian Bar Association (2001)
  • Priya Levers:[99][100] First female to serve as a Judge of the Cayman Islands Grand Court (2003)
  • Cheryll Richards:[101] First (female) Director of Public Prosecutions for the Cayman Islands (2011). In 2010, Richards became the first female Queen's Counsel (QC) in the Cayman Islands.[102]
  • Margaret Ramsay-Hale:[103] First female to serve as the Chief Justice of the Cayman Islands (2022)
  • Marilyn Brandt:[104] First Caymanian (female) attorney to serve as the Deputy Solicitor General in the Portfolio of Legal Affairs (2022)

Costa Rica

Cuba

Curaçao (NLD)

Dominica

Eugenia Charles: First female lawyer in Dominica (1949)

Dominican Republic

  • Minerva Argentina Mirabal (c. 1940s):[145] First female to graduate with a law degree in the Dominican Republic, but she was denied the right to practice as an attorney
  • Ana Teresa Paredas:[146][147][148] First female lawyer in the Dominican Republic
  • Luisa Comarazamy de Los Santos:[149][150] First female Justice of the Peace in the Dominican Republic (c. 1950s)
  • Olga Altagracia Seijas Herrero:[151] First female to serve as a Judge of the Electoral Board of the Dominican Republic (1987)
  • Pura Luz Núñez Pérez and Semiramis Olivo de Pichardo:[152][148][153] First females to serve as the Attorney General of the Dominican Republic (their terms were 1988-1990 respectively)
  • Margarita Tavares Vidal (1947):[154][155] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Dominican Republic (1997)
  • Zoila Martínez (1967):[154] First female appointed as Prosecutor of the National District in the Dominican Republic (1995)
  • Rhadys Abreu de Polanco:[154] First Dominican Republic female elected as a Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States (2006)
  • Olga Herrera Carbuccia:[154][156] First Dominican Republic female elected as a Judge of the International Criminal Court (2011)
  • Mabel Ybelca Féliz Báez:[151] First female to serve as a Judge of the Superior Electoral Court of the Dominican Republic (2011)
  • Ana Isabel Bonilla Hernandez and Katia Miguelina Jiménez Martínez:[157] First females to serve as Judges of the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic (2011)
  • Nancy Idelsa Salcedo Fernández:[158] First female appointed as a member of the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM) in the Dominican Republic (2020)

El Salvador

  • Alma Paredes Delgado:[159] First El Salvadorean female to become a lawyer, though her studies were in Mexico and her other pursuits included journalism
  • María García Herrera de Jovel (1944):[160][161] First female to graduate as a lawyer in El Salvador
  • Noemí Arias Avilés:[162] First female appointed as a Judge of the First Instance in El Salvador (1959)
  • Yolanda Myers de Vásquez:[162][163][164] First female to serve as a Magistrate of the Labor Chamber (1961) and the Attorney General of El Salvador (1967)
  • Ana "Anita" Calderón de Buitrago and Aronette Diaz:[162][165][166] First females to serve as Judges of the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador (1994)
  • Miriam Geraldine Aldana Revelo:[167] First (female) Judge of the Courts of Extinction of Domain (2004)
  • Carmen Elena Rivas Landaverde:[168] First female to serve as the President of the Court of Accounts of the Republic of El Salvador (c. 2018)

Greenland (DNK)

  • Agnete Weis Bentzon:[169] First female lawyer to perform a legal expedition in Greenland (the result of which led to the creation of a criminal law system in Greenland). She served as a judge in Greenland from 1963 to 1964. Prior to the expedition, she had the distinction of being Denmark's first female professor of law.
  • Vera Leth:[170][171] First Greenlandic female lawyer (1988). She is also the female to serve as the County Council Ombudsman for the Parliament of Greenland (1997).
  • Birgit Skriver:[172][173][174] First female to serve as a Judge of the Court of Greenland (2011; court created in 2010)

Grenada

Guadeloupe (FRA)

Guatemala

  • Luz Castillo Díaz-Ordaz de Villagrán:[188] First female to graduate as a lawyer in Guatemala (1927), though she could not exercise the profession until the 1940s
  • Graciela Quan (1942):[189] First female lawyer in Guatemala
  • Eunice Lima Schaul (c. 1953):[190] First female called to the Guatemalan Bar Association
  • Ana Maria Rosa Vargas de Ortiz:[191][192][193] First female judge in Guatemala (1960)
  • María Luisa Beltranena de Padilla:[194][195] First female to serve as a Magistrate and the President (Post-Serranazo; 1993) of the Supreme Court of Guatemala
  • Alma Beatriz Quiñones López:[196][197] First female to serve as the President of the Constitutional Court of Guatemala (1995)
  • Yolanda Pérez Ruiz:[198] First female to serve as the President of the College of Lawyers and Notaries of Guatemala (2005)
  • María Encarnación Mejía García de Contreras:[199] First female to serve as the interim Attorney General of Guatemala (2010)
  • Claudia Paz y Paz:[200][201][202] First female to permanently serve as the Attorney General of Guatemala (2010-2014)

Haiti

  • Georgette Justin (1933):[203][204][205] First female lawyer in Haiti
  • Ertha Pascal-Trouillot (1971[206]):[207][208][209][210] First female judge in Haiti (upon her appointment as a Judge of the Court of First Instance in 1979). She was also the first female appointed as a Judge of the Court of Appeal (1985) and the Supreme Court of Haiti (Court of Cassation; 1986). From 1990-1991, she was the first female to serve as the Provisional Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Haiti.[211]
  • Nonie H. Mathieu:[212] First female to serve as the President of the Superior Court of Auditors and Administrative Disputes of Haiti (2009)
  • Marie Suzy Legros:[213] First female elected to serve as a Bâtonnière (l’ordre des avocats de Port-au-Prince) in Haiti (2020)

Honduras

Jamaica

Martinique (FRA)

Mexico

Marisela Morales: First female Attorney General of Mexico (2011)

Montserrat (GBR)

Nicaragua

  • Olga Núñez de Saballos (née Abaunza) (1945):[273] First female lawyer in Nicaragua. She was also the first female to earn a law degree in Nicaragua.[274]
  • Catalina Rojas and Joaquina Vega:[275][276][277] First female judges in Nicaragua (1948-1949). Vega would later become the first female district court judge in Nicaragua (c. 1964).[278]
  • Vilma Núñez de Escorcia:[279][280][281] First female to serve as a Judge and Vice-President of the Supreme Court of Nicaragua (1979)
  • Ana Julia Guido Ochoa:[282] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Nicaragua (2014)
  • Doña Alba Luz Ramos:[283] First female judge to serve as the President of the Supreme Court of Nicaragua (2017)
  • Becky McCrea:[284] First Rama (female) lawyer in Nicaragua

Panama

  • Clara Gonzalez (1925):[285] First female lawyer in Panama. She later became the first female Judge of the Juvenile Justice Court when it was created in 1951.[286]
  • Alma Montenegro de Fletcher:[287][288] First female to serve as a notary public and prosecutor in Panama
  • Marisol Reyes de Vásquez (c. 1958):[289] First female justice appointed as President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Panama (1985)
  • Graciela Dixon:[289][290] First Black female justice appointed as the President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Panama (2005)
  • Ana Matilde Gómez:[291][292] First female to serve as the Attorney General of Panama (2005)
  • Sara Omi Casamá:[293] First Emberá female lawyer in Panama
  • Dialys Ehrman:[294] First Guna (female) lawyer in Panama
  • Marta López de Martin:[295][296] First female to serve as the President of the National Bar Association of Panama (2007)
  • Katherin Flaco Chamarra (2023):[297] First Embera-Wounaan female lawyer in Panama

Puerto Rico (USA)

Saba (NLD)

Saint Barthélemy (FRA)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Martin (FRA)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon (FRA)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Sint Eustatius (NLD)

Sint Maarten (NLD)

Trinidad and Tobago

  • Gladys Eileen Ramsaran (1932):[319] First female lawyer in Trinidad and Tobago
  • Mona Rigsby James (1939):[320] First native-born female lawyer in Trinidad and Tobago
  • Jean A. Permanand (1962):[321][322] First female appointed as a Judge of the Appeal Court of Trinidad and Tobago (1993-2004).She was also the first female lawyer to become the Solicitor General in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1980s.
  • Occah Seepaul (1964):[321][323] First female appointed as the Master of the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago (1986-1993)
  • Gladys Seedansingh Gafoor (1962):[1] First female to serve as the Director of Public Prosecutions in Trinidad and Tobago (c. 1987)
  • Wendy Punnett-Hope:[321] First female appointed as the Acting Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago (1970-1977). Brenda Paray-Durity later became the first permanent female Registrar.
  • Marie Elizabeth Bourne-Hollands:[321][323] First female judge in Trinidad and Tobago (upon her appointment as a Judge of the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago in 1972). She was also the first female lawyer in Barbados.
  • Monica Barnes:[324] First female from Trinidad and Tobago to be admitted to the Inner Bar and made a Senior Counsel (1979)
  • Kamla Persad-Bissessar (1985):[325][326] First female lawyer to become the Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago (1995)
  • Morean Phillip:[327] First female appointed as the President of the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (1989)
  • Maureen Rajnauth-Lee:[328] First female citizen of Trinidad and Tobago appointed as a Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice (2015)
  • Marcia Ayers-Caesar:[329] First female to serve as the Chief Magistrate of the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago (2017)

Turks and Caicos Islands (GBR)

  • Shirley D. Simmons (1980):[330][331] First female (a Bermudian) admitted to the Turks and Caicos Islands Bar Association
  • Margaret Ramsay-Hale (1991):[332][333][334][335][336][337] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Turks and Caicos Islands (2011) and serve as its Chief Justice (2014)
  • Lisa Agard:[338] First female Senior Counsel to work for the Attorney General's Office of the Turks and Caicos Islands (c. 1987)
  • Sarah Knight (1998):[339] First Turks and Caicos Islander female admitted to the Turks and Caicos Islands Bar Association. She later served as the association's president.
  • Rhondalee Braithwaite-Knowles:[340] First Turks and Caicos Islander female to become a Deputy Attorney General (2008) and Attorney General of Turks and Caicos Islands (2014). She later became the first female Queen's Counsel (QC) in the Turks and Caicos Islands.[341]
  • JoAnn Meloche:[342] First (female) Director of Public Prosecutions in the Turks and Caicos Islands (2013)
  • Oreika Selver-Gardiner:[343] First local female attorney to serve as a magistrate in the Turks and Caicos Islands (2020)

United States

See List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States

United States Virgin Islands (USA)

See also

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