List of first women lawyers and judges in Tennessee

Firsts in state history

Lawyers

• Lutie Lytle : First African American female admitted to practice law in Tennessee. She worked thereafter as an educator and librarian at Tennessee College.
• Marion Scudder Griffin : First female lawyer to practice law in Tennessee
• Frances Wolf : First female lawyer to argue before the Tennessee Court of Civil Appeals

  Judicial Officers

State

Judges

• Camille Kelley: First female judge in Tennessee
• Martha Craig "Cissy" Daughtrey : First female judge in a court of record in Tennessee
• Bernice B. Donald : First African American female judge in Tennessee
• Carolyn Wade Brackett: First African American female to serve as a criminal court judge in Tennessee

  District Court

• Bernice B. Donald : First African American female to become a District Court judge in Tennessee
• Lisa Niddifer Rice : First female Criminal Court Judge of the First Judicial District in Tennessee Carter County, Tennessee|

  Circuit Court

• Rita L. Stotts: First African American female to become a Circuit Court judge in Tennessee

  Appellate Court

• Martha Craig "Cissy" Daughtrey : First female to sit on the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals

  Supreme Court

• Martha Craig "Cissy" Daughtrey : First female to sit on the Tennessee Supreme Court

  Federal

District Court

• Pamela L. Reeves : First female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

  Bankruptcy Court

• Bernice B. Donald : First African American female appointed by the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to serve as a bankruptcy judge

  Circuit Court

• Bernice B. Donald : First African American to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Tennessee

  Deputy Attorney General

• Patricia J. Cottrell : First female Deputy Attorney General of Tennessee

  Assistant Attorney General

• Etrula T. Trotter: First female to serve as the Assistant Attorney General for Tennessee

  United States Attorney

• Veronica F. Coleman: First African American appointed as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee

  Assistant United States Attorney

• Martha Craig "Cissy" Daughtrey : First female to serve as the Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee
• Devon L. Gosnell: First female to serve as the Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee

  Solicitor General

• Andrée Blumstein : First female Solicitor General of Tennessee

  Bar Association

• Pamela L. Reeves : First female to serve as the President of the Tennessee Bar Association
• Joycelyn Stevenson: First African American female to serve as the President of the Tennessee Bar Association

  Firsts in local history

Blount County

• Tammy Harrington : First female judge in Blount County, Tennessee

  Davidson County

• Martha Craig "Cissy" Daughtrey : First female lawyer in Nashville's U.S. Attorney's Office. She is also the first tenure-track female professor at Vanderbilt Law School.
• Angelita Dalton: First African American female to serve as a Judge of the Davidson County Criminal Court

  DeKalb County

• Kate M. Drake: First female judge in DeKalb County, Tennessee

  Hamblen County

• Joyce Ward: First female judge in Hamblen County, Tennessee

  Hamilton County

• Marguerite Lanham : First female in Chattanooga, Tennessee admitted to the U.S. District Court
• Sherry Paty: First female to serve as a City Court Judge for Chattanooga, Tennessee

  Hardeman County

• Ophelia Dukes: First female magistrate in Hardeman County, Tennessee

  Knox County

• Lalla Block Arnstein: First female magistrate in Knox County, Tennessee
• Charme P. Allen: First female to serve as the District Attorney for Knox County, Tennessee

  Madison County

• Sue Shelton White: First female lawyer in Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee

  Maury County

• Dabney Anderson: First female magistrate of the Maury County Quarterly Court

  Rutherford County

• Nancy Smith Sellers : First female lawyer in Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee
• Donna Scott Davenport: First female judge in Rutherford County, Tennessee

  Shelby County

• Camille Kelley: First female to serve as a Judge of the Juvenile Court of Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
• Alma Hogshead Law: First female magistrate in Shelby County, Tennessee
• Nell Sanders Aspero : First female lawyer in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
• Ann Pugh : First female judge in Shelby County, Tennessee
• Nancy B. Sorak: First female elected as a judge in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. She was also the first female Public Defender for the City Court.
• Earnestine Dorse: First African American female to serve as a judge in Memphis, Tennessee
• Carolyn Wade Brackett: First African American female to serve as a Judge of the Criminal Court in Shelby County, Tennessee
• Karen D. Webster: First African American elected as a Judge of the Shelby County Probate Court
• Amy Weirich: First female to serve as the District Attorney for Shelby County, Tennessee
• Phyllis Aluko: First female Chief Public Defender of Shelby County, Tennessee
• Lee Ann Pafford Dobson: First female judge in Collierville, Tennessee

  Van Buren County

• Susan Marttala: First female to serve as District Attorney in the State of Tennessee as well as for the Thirty-First Judicial District in Tennessee

  Warren County

• Susan Marttala: First female to serve as District Attorney in the State of Tennessee as well as for the Thirty-First Judicial District in Tennessee Warren Counties, Tennessee

  '''Williamson County'''

• Jane Franks: First female judge in Wilco, [Williamson County, Tennessee">Warren County, Tennessee">Warren Counties, Tennessee

  '''Williamson County'''

• Jane Franks: First female judge in Wilco, [Williamson County, Tennessee

  Other topics of interest

• List of first minority male lawyers and judges in the United States
• List of first minority male lawyers and judges in Tennessee