List of first women lawyers and judges in New Hampshire explained

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

Lawyers

State judges

Federal judges

Assistant Attorney General

United States Attorney

Bar associations

First 100 women admitted to practice law in New Hampshire[22]

  1. Agnes Winifred McLaughlin
  2. Jennie Blanche Newhall
  3. Margaret Sheehan Blodgett
  4. Charlotte Helen George
  5. Sara T. Knox
  6. Esther Gottesfeld Lublin
  7. Miriam G. Rosenblum
  8. Pauline Swain Merrill
  9. Harriet E. Mansfield
  10. Paula Ladday
  11. Florence T. Cavanaugh
  12. Nina N. Frankman
  13. Marguerita M. Hurley
  14. Evelyn C. Earley
  15. Emily Marx
  16. Beatrice F. Little
  17. Beryle M. Aldrich
  18. Mary Alice Fountain
  19. Celia D.R. Novins
  20. Evangeline V. Tallman
  21. Doris Louise Bennett
  22. Mary E. Perkins
  23. Pauline B. Barnard
  24. Mabelle Fellows Murphy
  25. Leila L. Maynard
  26. Ida V. C. Milligan
  27. Ruth I. Moses
  28. Margaret Quill Flynn
  29. Lucille Kozlowski
  30. Irma A. Matthews
  31. Catharine B. Sage
  32. Anne M. Howorth
  33. Rachel Hallett Johnson
  34. Caroline R. Grey
  35. Constance M. Mehegan
  36. Winnifred M. Moran
  37. Constance J. Betley
  38. Helen White
  39. Judith Dunlop Ransmeier
  40. Mary Susan Stein Leahy
  41. Laura Jane Kahn
  42. Martha Margaret Davis
  43. Eleanor S. Krasnow
  44. Susan B. Monson
  45. Julia N. Nelson
  46. Dorothy R. Sullivan
  47. Jean K. Burling
  48. Donna W. Economou
  49. Alexandra T. Breed
  50. Linda Stewart Dalianis
  51. Claudia Cords Damon
  52. Georgia C. Griffin
  53. Barbara Sard
  54. Bruce Earman Viles
  55. Joyce Ann Wilder
  56. Joan L. Carroll
  57. Anne Swift Almy
  58. Sharon Ann Coughlin
  59. Anne M. Goggin
  60. J. Campbell Harvey
  61. Judith Miller Kasper
  62. Patricia McKee
  63. Ellen J. Musinsky
  64. Brenda T. Piampiano
  65. Janina Stodolski
  66. Elizabeth B. Sullivan
  67. Priscilla B. Fox
  68. Micki B. Stiller
  69. Mae C. Bradshaw
  70. Anne Cagwin Hagstrom
  71. Deborah J. Cooper
  72. Lynne M. Dennis
  73. Nancy E. Ebb
  74. Abigail Elias
  75. Alice S. Love
  76. Stephanie T. Nute
  77. Elaine R. Warshell
  78. Catherine Ravinski
  79. Carolyn W. Baldwin
  80. Dorothy Bickford-Desmond
  81. Charlotte Crane
  82. Pamela D. Kelly
  83. Janine Gawryl
  84. Cathy J. Green
  85. Jody D. Handy
  86. Dona L. Heller
  87. Carolyn H. Henneman
  88. Constance G. Jackson
  89. Barbara R. Keshen
  90. Karin Kramer
  91. Jane R. Lawrence
  92. Ellen L. Arnold
  93. Lizbeth Lyons
  94. Elizabeth Marean Mueller
  95. Marilyn Billings McNamara
  96. Margaret B. Morin
  97. Nancy V. Sisemoore
  98. Susan Vercillo Duprey
  99. Lanea A. Witkus
  100. Nancy O. Dodge

Firsts in local history

See also

Other topics of interest

References

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