Clara Shortridge Foltz (1850-1934), first woman admitted to CA State Bar (practiced in SD in 1888) Marie Herney (1908-1984), San Diego County’s first female Deputy District Attorney Madge Bradley (1904-2000), SD Co’s first female judge Betty Evans Boone, SD Co's first female Deputy County Counsel Fisher, Wied & Chancer, San Diego’s first all female law firm Artie G. Henderson (1928-2000), SD Co’s first female Superior Court Judge Patricia Ann Yim Cowett, California’s first Asian Pacific Islander female judge and, according to current records, in the U.S. Elizabeth Riggs, SD Co’s first female and first African American judge of the Municipal Court, El Cajon Judicial District. In 1998, Riggs became SD Co’s first African-American female Judge of the Superior Court. Judith McConnell, SD Co's first female Presiding Judge of the Superior Court Irma Elsa Gonzalez, first Mexican-American female District Court Judge in the U.S. The year prior, Gonzalez became SD Co's first Latina Superior Court Judge. Bonnie Dumanis, SD Co's first openly LGBTQ+ elected judge Bonnie Dumanis, SD Co’s first female District Attorney Judith McConnell, first female Presiding Justice of CA's Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division One Professor Anita Hill speaks at Lawyers Club’s Annual Dinner Former United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks at Lawyers Club’s Annual Dinner
