List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States

This list of the first women lawyers and judges in each state of the United States includes the years in which the women were admitted to practice law.

Also included are women of other distinctions, such as the first in their states to graduate from law school.

See Law school in the United States See also Lists of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States See Women in the United States judiciary See Women in the United States judiciary See United States Attorney General See also List of presidents of the American Bar Association

Margaret Brent: first woman to act as an attorney in the United States (1648)
Arabella Mansfield: first woman admitted to practice law in the United States (1869)
Charlotte E. Ray: First African American female lawyer in the United States and Washington, D.C. (1872)
Lyda Conley: First Native American female lawyer in the United States (1902)