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This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in New Jersey. 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 Jersey's history

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Lawyers

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  • First female: Mary Philbrook (1895)[1]
  • First female to independently defend a client on a homicide charge: Elizabeth Blume Silverstein (1913)[2]
  • First African American females: M. Bernadine Johnson Marshall and Martha Belle (1949)[3][4]
  • First undocumented female: Marisol Conde-Hernández (2018)[5]

State judges

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Federal judges

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  • First (African American) female (U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey): Anne Elise Thompson (1964) in 1979[27][28][29]
  • First Hispanic American woman (U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey; U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey): Esther Salas (1981) in 2006[20][21]
  • First South Asian American female and first Muslim female (U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey): Rukhsanah L. Singh in 2022[30]

Attorney General of New Jersey

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Deputy Attorney General

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  • First female: June Strelecki in 1957[33]

Assistant Attorney General

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  • First female: Marilyn H. Loftus (1961)[34]

United States Attorney

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  • First female: Faith S. Hochberg from 1994-1999[35]

Assistant United States Attorneys

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  • First (African American) females:[35] Barbara Ann Morris and Carolyn Elizabeth Arch respectively in 1956 and 1966

Public Advocate

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County Prosecutors

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Political Office

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Bar Associations

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Firsts in local history

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See also

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Other topics of interest

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References

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