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List of first women lawyers and judges in South Carolina

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Courtney Clyburn-Pope: First female (and African American) to serve as a resident judge (Second Judicial Circuit) in
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Margie Elizabeth Fuller Cannon: First female magistrate in Charleston County, South Carolina (1968)
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Nettie B. Cusack: First African American Female Probate Judge in Dorchester County (2005-2011)
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Nancy Isabelle Richardson Shelley: First female magistrate in Horry County, South Carolina
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First African American female (U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina):
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Foye Covington: First female magistrate in Orangeburg County, South Carolina (1999)
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Carolyn Smith Knight: First female magistrate in Florence County, South Carolina
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Ruth Cupp: First female lawyer admitted to the Charleston County Bar Association
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First female to practice in South Carolina's federal courts: Sue Evelyn Lester
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Mabel Lee Parrott Shuler: First female (non-attorney) magistrate in
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Grace White (1937): First female lawyer in Beaufort, South Carolina
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First African American female (family court): Abigail Rogers in 1991
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List of first minority male lawyers and judges in the United States
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First African American female president: Shaheena Bennett in 2024
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List of first minority male lawyers and judges in South Carolina
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Clyde Best Sandifer: First female (non-attorney) magistrate in
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Lists of first women lawyers and judges in the United States
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First female (federal court): Jean Galloway Bissell in 1984
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First African American female: Cassandra E. Maxwell (1938)
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Barbara Usher Griffin: First female magistrate judge for
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Madam Chief Justice: Jean Hoefer Toal of South Carolina
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List of first women lawyers and judges in South Dakota
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First female law graduate: Claudia J. Sullivan (1918)
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Karen Sanchez Roper: First female resident judge in
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First African American female from South Carolina (
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South Carolina

Sherri Lydon
James M. Perry
South Carolina Supreme Court
Carol Connor
South Carolina Supreme Court
Jean H. Toal
South Carolina Circuit Court
Carol Connor
South Carolina Court of Appeals
Carol Connor
South Carolina Supreme Court
Jean H. Toal
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Karen J. Williams
Margaret B. Seymour
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
DeAndrea G. Benjamin
Sherri Lydon
Aiken County, South Carolina
Berkeley County, South Carolina
Bamberg County, South Carolina
Charleston County, South Carolina
Chester County, South Carolina
Jasmine Twitty
Pickens County, South Carolina
Pickens County, South Carolina
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