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One Hundred+ Years of Breaking the Glass Ceiling On and Off the Bench

September 15, 2023 - Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Journal - September 2023

Publications

One Hundred+ Years of Breaking the Glass Ceiling On and Off the Bench

September 15, 2023 - Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Journal - September 2023

No article about women in the law can be written without referencing the remarkable accomplishments of Justice Florence Ellinwood Allen. Her list of “firsts” is quite impressive:

  • In 1919, she became the first female assistant prosecutor for Cuyahoga County;
  • In 1920, she became the first female judge in United States history when she was elected as judge of the Common Pleas Court of Cuyahoga County;
  • In 1922, she became the first female on a court of last resort when she was elected as a justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio;
  • In 1934, she became the first female on any federal appellate court when she was appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals; and
  • In 1938, she became the first female considered for nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Read the complete article “One Hundred+ Years of Breaking the Glass Ceiling On and Off the Bench” below.

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