Mary Luella Trescott (1861–1935) was a legal rights attorney and the first woman appointed to local, state, and Federal judicial positions in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

Trescott's education and positions were achieved before 1920 when ratification of the 19th Amendment granted American women the right to vote.

[3] On October 28, 1894 a house known as the "Hungarian Shanty" was destroyed in a dynamite explosion, killing three occupants and injuring eight others.

Trescott took on the representation of the women and successfully filed habeas corpus pleadings[6] to obtain their release in March 1897.

[7] In Trescott's 1927 campaign for a seat as a judge she touted that she was the first woman from Luzerne County to hold the following positions:[8]