Female state supreme court justices

StateJusticeYear
AlabamaJanie Shores1974
AlabamaJean Brown1995
AlabamaPatricia M. Smith2004
AlabamaSue Bell Cobb2007
AlabamaAlisa Kelli Wise2011
AlabamaLyn Stuart2016
AlabamaSarah Hicks Stewart2019
AlaskaDana Fabe1996
AlaskaMorgan Christen2009
AlaskaSusan M. Carney2016
AlaskaJennifer S. Henderson2021
ArizonaLorna E. Lockwood1961
ArizonaRuth McGregor1998
ArizonaRebecca White Berch2002
ArizonaAnn Timmer2012
ArizonaKathryn Hackett King2021
ArkansasElsijane Trimble Roy1976
ArkansasAndree Layton Roaf1995
ArkansasAnnabelle Clinton Imber1997
ArkansasBetty Dickey2004
ArkansasCourtney Rae Hudson2008
ArkansasElana Wills2008
ArkansasKaren R. Baker2010
ArkansasJosephine L. Hart2012
ArkansasRhonda K. Wood2015
ArkansasBarbara Womack Webb2021
CaliforniaRose Bird1977
CaliforniaJoyce L. Kennard1989
CaliforniaKathryn Werdegar1994
CaliforniaJanice Rogers Brown1996
CaliforniaCarol Corrigan2006
CaliforniaTani Cantil-Sakauye2011
CaliforniaLeondra Kruger2015
CaliforniaPatricia Guerrero2022
CaliforniaKelli Evans2023
ColoradoJean Dubofsky1979
ColoradoMary Mullarkey1987
ColoradoRebecca Love Kourlis1995
ColoradoNancy E. Rice1998
ColoradoAllison H. Eid2006
ColoradoMonica Márquez2010
ColoradoMelissa Hart2017
ColoradoMaria Berkenkotter2021
ConnecticutEllen Ash Peters1978
ConnecticutJoette Katz1992
ConnecticutChristine S. Vertefeuille2000
ConnecticutCarmen E. Espinosa2013
ConnecticutMaria Araújo Kahn2018
ConnecticutChristine Keller2020
ConnecticutJoan K. Alexander2022
ConnecticutNora Dannehy2023
DelawareCarolyn Berger1994
DelawareKaren L. Valihura2014
DelawareTamika Montgomery–Reeves2019
DelawareAbigail LeGrow2023
District of ColumbiaCatherine B. Kelly1967
District of ColumbiaJulia Cooper Mack1975
District of ColumbiaJudith W. Rogers1983
District of ColumbiaAnnice M. Wagner1990
District of ColumbiaInez Smith Reid1995
District of ColumbiaNoël A. Kramer2005
District of ColumbiaAnna Blackburne-Rigsby2006
District of ColumbiaPhyllis D. Thompson2006
District of ColumbiaKathryn A. Oberly2009
District of ColumbiaCorinne A. Beckwith2011
District of ColumbiaCatharine F. Easterly2012
FloridaRosemary Barkett1985
FloridaBarbara J. Pariente1997
FloridaPeggy A. Quince1998
FloridaBarbara Lagoa2019
FloridaJamie Grosshans2020
FloridaRenatha Francis2022
FloridaMeredith Sasso2023
GeorgiaLeah Ward Sears1992
GeorgiaCarol W. Hunstein1992
GeorgiaBritt Grant2017
GeorgiaSarah Hawkins Warren2018
GeorgiaCarla Wong McMillian2020
GeorgiaShawn Ellen LaGrua2021
GeorgiaVerda Colvin2021
HawaiiRhoda V. Lewis1959
HawaiiPaula A. Nakayama1993
HawaiiSabrina McKenna2011
HawaiiLisa M. Ginoza2023
IdahoLinda Copple Trout1992
IdahoCathy Silak1993
IdahoRobyn Brody2017
IdahoColleen Zahn2021
IdahoCynthia Meyer2023
IllinoisMary Ann McMorrow1992
IllinoisRita B. Garman2001
IllinoisMary Jane Theis2010
IllinoisAnne M. Burke2006
IllinoisLisa Holder White2022
IllinoisJoy Cunningham2022
IllinoisElizabeth Rochford2022
IllinoisMary K. O'Brien2022
IndianaMyra Consetta Selby1995
IndianaLoretta Rush2012
IowaLinda Kinnedy Neuman1986
IowaMarsha Ternus1993
IowaSusan Christensen2018
IowaDana Oxley2020
KansasKay McFarland1977
KansasCarol A. Beier2003
KansasMarla Luckert2003
KansasNancy Moritz2011
KansasEvelyn Wilson2019
KansasMelissa Standridge2020
KentuckySara Walter Combs1993
KentuckyJanet Stumbo1993
KentuckyLisabeth Tabor Hughes2007
KentuckyMary C. Noble2007
KentuckyMichelle M. Keller2013
KentuckyDebra H. Lambert2019
KentuckyAngela McCormick Bisig2023
LouisianaCatherine D. Kimball1992
LouisianaBernette Joshua Johnson1994
LouisianaJeannette Knoll1997
LouisianaPiper D. Griffin2021
MaineCaroline Duby Glassman1983
MaineLeigh Saufley1993
MaineSusan W. Calkins1998
MaineEllen Gorman2007
MaineCatherine Connors2020
MarylandRita C. Davidson1979
MarylandIrma S. Raker1994
MarylandLynne A. Battaglia2001
MarylandMary Ellen Barbera2008
MarylandSally D. Adkins2008
MarylandShirley M. Watts2013
MarylandMichele D. Hotten2015
MarylandBrynja McDivitt Booth2019
MarylandAngela M. Eaves2022
MassachusettsRuth Abrams1978
MassachusettsMargaret H. Marshall1996
MassachusettsJudith Cowin1999
MassachusettsMartha B. Sosman2000
MassachusettsMargot Botsford2007
MassachusettsBarbara Lenk2011
MassachusettsKimberly S. Budd2016
MassachusettsElspeth B. Cypher2017
MassachusettsDalila Argaez Wendlandt2020
MichiganMary S. Coleman1973
MichiganDorothy Comstock Riley1982
MichiganPatricia Boyle1983
MichiganElizabeth Weaver1995
MichiganMarilyn Jean Kelly1997
MichiganMaura D. Corrigan1999
MichiganDiane Hathaway2009
MichiganMary Beth Kelly2011
MichiganBridget Mary McCormack2013
MichiganJoan Larsen2015
MichiganElizabeth T. Clement2017
MichiganMegan Cavanagh2019
MichiganElizabeth M. Welch2021
MichiganKyra Harris Bolden2023
MinnesotaRosalie E. Wahl1977
MinnesotaMary Jeanne Coyne1982
MinnesotaEsther Tomljanovich1990
MinnesotaKathleen A. Blatz1996
MinnesotaSandra Gardebring Ogren1991
MinnesotaJoan N. Ericksen1998
MinnesotaHelen Meyer2002
MinnesotaLorie Skjerven Gildea2006
MinnesotaWilhelmina Wright2012
MinnesotaNatalie Hudson2015
MinnesotaMargaret H. Chutich2016
MinnesotaAnne McKeig2016
MississippiLenore L. Prather1982
MississippiKay B. Cobb1999
MississippiAnn Hannaford Lamar2007
MississippiDawn H. Beam2016
MissouriAnn K. Covington1988
MissouriLaura Denvir Stith2001
MissouriMary Rhodes Russell2004
MissouriPatricia Breckenridge2007
MissouriRobin Ransom2021
MissouriKelly C. Broniec2023
MissouriGinger Gooch2023
MontanaDiane Barz1989
MontanaKarla M. Gray1991
MontanaPatricia O'Brien Cotter2000
MontanaBeth Baker2011
MontanaLaurie McKinnon2013
MontanaIngrid Gustafson2018
NebraskaLindsey Miller-Lerman1998
NebraskaStephanie F. Stacy2015
NevadaMiriam Shearing1992
NevadaDeborah Agosti1999
NevadaNancy A. Becker1999
NevadaNancy Saitta2007
NevadaKristina Pickering2009
NevadaLidia S. Stiglich2016
NevadaAbbi Silver2019
NevadaElissa F. Cadish2019
NevadaPatricia Lee2022
NevadaLinda M. Bell2023
New HampshireLinda S. Dalianis2000
New HampshireAnna Hantz Marconi2017
New HampshireMelissa Beth Countway2023
New JerseyMarie L. Garibaldi1982
New JerseyDeborah Poritz1996
New JerseyVirginia Long1999
New JerseyJaynee LaVecchia2000
New JerseyHelen E. Hoens2006
New JerseyAnne M. Patterson2011
New JerseyFabiana Pierre-Louis2020
New JerseyRachel Wainer Apter2022
New MexicoMary Coon Walters1984
New MexicoPamela B. Minzner1994
New MexicoPetra Jimenez Maes1998
New MexicoBarbara J. Vigil2012
New MexicoJudith Nakamura2015
New MexicoC. Shannon Bacon2019
New MexicoJulie J. Vargas2021
New MexicoBriana Zamora2021
New YorkJudith Kaye1983
New YorkCarmen Beauchamp Ciparick1994
New YorkVictoria Graffeo2000
New YorkSusan Phillips Read2003
New YorkJenny Rivera2013
New YorkSheila Abdus-Salaam2013
New YorkLeslie Stein2015
New YorkJanet DiFiore2016
New YorkMadeline Singas2021
New YorkShirley Troutman2022
New YorkCaitlin Halligan2023
North CarolinaSusie Sharp1962
North CarolinaRhoda Billings1986
North CarolinaSarah Parker1992
North CarolinaPatricia Timmons-Goodson2006
North CarolinaRobin E. Hudson2007
North CarolinaBarbara Jackson2011
North CarolinaCheri Beasley2012
North CarolinaAnita Earls2019
North CarolinaTamara P. Barringer2021
North CarolinaAllison Riggs2023
North DakotaBeryl J. Levine1985
North DakotaMary Muehlen Maring1996
North DakotaCarol Ronning Kapsner1998
North DakotaLisa K. Fair McEvers2014
OhioFlorence E. Allen1923
OhioBlanche Krupansky1981
OhioAlice Robie Resnick1989
OhioEvelyn Lundberg Stratton1996
OhioMaureen O'Connor2003
OhioJudith Ann Lanzinger2005
OhioYvette McGee Brown2011
OhioSharon L. Kennedy2012
OhioJudith L. French2013
OhioMary DeGenaro2018
OhioMelody J. Stewart2019
OhioJennifer Brunner2021
OklahomaAlma Bell Wilson1982
OklahomaYvonne Kauger1984
OklahomaNoma Gurich2011
OklahomaDana Kuehn2021
OregonBetty Roberts1982
OregonSusan P. Graber1990
OregonSusan M. Leeson1998
OregonMartha Lee Walters2006
OregonVirginia Linder2007
OregonLynn Nakamoto2016
OregonMeagan Flynn2017
OregonRebecca Duncan2017
OregonAdrienne Nelson2018
OregonAruna Masih2023
PennsylvaniaAnne X. Alpern1961
PennsylvaniaJuanita Kidd Stout1988
PennsylvaniaCynthia Baldwin2006
PennsylvaniaJane Cutler Greenspan2008
PennsylvaniaJoan Orie Melvin2010
PennsylvaniaDebra Todd2008
PennsylvaniaChristine Donohue2008
PennsylvaniaSallie Updyke Mundy2016
Rhode IslandFlorence K. Murray1979
Rhode IslandVictoria Lederberg1993
Rhode IslandMaureen McKenna Goldberg1997
Rhode IslandErin Lynch Prata2021
Rhode IslandMelissa A. Long2021
South CarolinaJean H. Toal1988
South CarolinaKaye Gorenflo Hearn2009
South DakotaJudith Meierhenry2002
South DakotaLori S. Wilbur2011
South DakotaJanine M. Kern2014
South DakotaPatricia DeVaney2019
TennesseeMartha Craig Daughtrey1990
TennesseePenny J. White1994
TennesseeJanice M. Holder1996
TennesseeCornelia A. Clark2005
TennesseeSharon Gail Lee2009
TennesseeHolly M. Kirby2014
TennesseeSarah K. Campbell2022
TexasRuby Kless Sondock1982
TexasBarbara Culver1988
TexasRose Spector1992
TexasPriscilla Richman1995
TexasDeborah Hankinson1997
TexasHarriet O'Neill1999
TexasEva Guzman2009
TexasDebra Lehrmann2010
TexasJane Bland2019
TexasRebeca Huddle2020
UtahChristine M. Durham1982
UtahJill Parrish2003
UtahPaige Petersen2017
UtahDiana Hagen2022
UtahJill Pohlman2022
VermontDenise R. Johnson1990
VermontMarilyn Skoglund1997
VermontBeth Robinson2011
VermontKaren Carroll2019
VermontNancy Waples2022
VirginiaElizabeth B. Lacy1988
VirginiaBarbara Milano Keenan1991
VirginiaCynthia D. Kinser1997
VirginiaElizabeth A. McClanahan2011
VirginiaJane Marum Roush2015
VirginiaCleo Powell2011
VirginiaTeresa M. Chafin2019
WashingtonCarolyn R. Dimmick1981
WashingtonBarbara Madsen1993
WashingtonBarbara Durham1995
WashingtonRosselle Pekelis1995
WashingtonFaith Ireland1999
WashingtonBobbe Bridge2001
WashingtonSusan Owens2001
WashingtonMary Fairhurst2003
WashingtonDebra L. Stephens2008
WashingtonSheryl Gordon McCloud2013
WashingtonMary Yu2014
WashingtonRaquel Montoya-Lewis2020
WashingtonHelen Whitener2020
West VirginiaMargaret Workman1988
West VirginiaRobin Davis1996
West VirginiaBeth Walker2017
West VirginiaC. Haley Bunn2022
WisconsinShirley Abrahamson1976
WisconsinJanine P. Geske1993
WisconsinAnn Walsh Bradley1995
WisconsinDiane S. Sykes1999
WisconsinPatience D. Roggensack2003
WisconsinAnnette Ziegler2007
WisconsinRebecca Bradley2015
WisconsinRebecca Dallet2018
WisconsinJill Karofsky2020
WisconsinJanet Protasiewicz2023
WyomingMarylin S. Kite2000
WyomingKate M. Fox2014
WyomingLynne J. Boomgaarden2017
WyomingKari Jo Gray2018

First female justices

Below is a list of the names of the first woman to sit on the highest court of their respective states in the United States.

The first state with a female justice was Ohio; Florence E. Allen was named to the bench in 1923.[1]

StateJusticeYear
AlabamaJanie Shores1974
AlaskaDana Fabe1996
ArizonaLorna E. Lockwood1961
ArkansasElsijane Trimble Roy1976
CaliforniaRose Bird1977
ColoradoJean Dubofsky[2]1979
ConnecticutEllen Ash Peters1978
DelawareCarolyn Berger[3]1994
District of ColumbiaCatherine B. Kelly1967
FloridaRosemary Barkett1985
GeorgiaLeah Ward Sears1992
HawaiiRhoda V. Lewis[4]1959
IdahoLinda Copple Trout[5]1992
IllinoisMary Ann G. McMorrow1992
IndianaMyra Consetta Selby[6]1995
IowaLinda Kinnedy Neuman[7]1986
KansasKay McFarland1977
KentuckySara W. Combs[8]1993
LouisianaCatherine D. Kimball1992
MaineCaroline Duby Glassman1983
MarylandRita C. Davidson[9]1979
MassachusettsRuth Abrams1978
MichiganMary Coleman[10]1973
MinnesotaRosalie E. Wahl1977
MississippiLenore L. Prather[11]1982
MissouriAnn K. Covington1988
MontanaDiane Barz[12]1989
NebraskaLindsey Miller-Lerman1998
NevadaMiriam Shearing1992
New HampshireLinda S. Dalianis2000
New JerseyMarie L. Garibaldi[13]1982
New MexicoMary Coon Walters[14]1984
New YorkJudith Kaye1983
North CarolinaSusie Sharp1962
North DakotaBeryl J. Levine1985
OhioFlorence E. Allen1923
OklahomaAlma Bell Wilson[15]1982
OregonBetty Roberts1982
PennsylvaniaAnne X. Alpern1961
Rhode IslandFlorence K. Murray1979
South CarolinaJean H. Toal1988
South DakotaJudith Meierhenry2002
TennesseeMartha Craig Daughtrey1990
TexasRuby Kless Sondock1982
UtahChristine M. Durham1982
VermontDenise R. Johnson[16]1990
VirginiaElizabeth B. Lacy1988
WashingtonCarolyn R. Dimmick1981
West VirginiaMargaret Workman1988
WisconsinShirley Abrahamson1976
WyomingMarilyn Stebner Kite[17]2000
United States Supreme CourtSandra Day O'Connor1981

Female chief justices

StateChief JusticeYear
ArizonaLorna E. Lockwood1965
ArizonaLorna E. Lockwood1970
North CarolinaSusie Sharp1975
CaliforniaRose Bird1977
MichiganMary S. Coleman1979
ConnecticutEllen Ash Peters1984
North CarolinaRhoda Billings1986
FloridaRosemary Barkett1992
MissouriAnn K. Covington1993
NevadaMiriam Shearing1993
New YorkJudith Kaye1993
KansasKay McFarland1995
OklahomaAlma Wilson1995
WashingtonBarbara Durham1995
WisconsinShirley Abrahamson1996
New JerseyDeborah Poritz1996
AlaskaDana Fabe1996
IdahoLinda Copple Trout1997
MinnesotaKathleen A. Blatz1998
ColoradoMary Mullarkey1998
MassachusettsMargaret H. Marshall1999
South CarolinaJean H. Toal2000
MaineLeigh Saufley2001
MontanaKarla M. Gray2001
IllinoisMary Ann McMorrow2002
UtahChristine M. Durham2002
New MexicoPetra Jimenez Maes2003
NevadaNancy A. Becker2005
FloridaBarbara Pariente2004
ArizonaRuth McGregor2005
GeorgiaLeah Ward Sears2005
North CarolinaSarah Parker2006
IowaMarsha Ternus2006
OklahomaYvonne Kauger2007
AlabamaSue Bell Cobb2007
ConnecticutChase T. Rogers2007
MissouriLaura Denvir Stith2007
TennesseeJanice M. Holder2008
FloridaPeggy Quince2008
GeorgiaCarol W. Hunstein2009
LouisianaCatherine D. Kimball2009
West VirginiaMargaret Workman2009
ArizonaRebecca White Berch2009
MinnesotaLorie Skjerven Gildea2010
TennesseeCornelia A. Clark2010
WashingtonBarbara Madsen2010
WyomingMarylin S. Kite2010
New HampshireLinda S. Dalianis2011
OhioMaureen O'Connor2011
VirginiaCynthia D. Kinser2011
CaliforniaTani Cantil-Sakauye2011
MarylandMary Ellen Barbera2013
IllinoisRita B. Garman2013
LouisianaBernette Joshua Johnson2013
MissouriMary Rhodes Russell2013
ColoradoNancy E. Rice2014
IndianaLoretta Rush2014
TennesseeSharon G. Lee2014
New MexicoBarbara J. Vigil2014
MissouriPatricia Breckenridge2015
WisconsinPatience D. Roggensack2015
New YorkJanet DiFiore2016
AlabamaLyn Stuart2016
New MexicoJudith Nakamura2017
WashingtonMary Fairhurst2017
OregonMartha Lee Walters2018
North CarolinaCheri Beasley2019
OklahomaNoma Gurich2019
IllinoisAnne M. Burke2019
KansasMarla Luckert2019
MichiganBridget Mary McCormack2019
West VirginiaBeth Walker2019
WashingtonDebra L. Stephens2020
NevadaKristina Pickering2020
IowaSusan Christensen2020
MassachusettsKimberly S. Budd2020
WisconsinAnnette Ziegler2021
MaineValerie Stanfill2021
WyomingKate M. Fox2021
PennsylvaniaDebra Todd2022
IllinoisMary Jane Theis2022
MichiganElizabeth T. Clement2022
OhioSharon L. Kennedy2023
West VirginiaBeth Walker2023
CaliforniaPatricia Guerrero2023
NevadaLidia S. Stiglich2023

Instances of a female-majority court

Throughout history, men have outnumbered women on the highest court in each state. Instances of female-majority courts remain an uncommon occurrence, but in recent decades they have appeared more frequently. Currently, the United States Supreme Court has the highest percentage of women justices it has ever had, yet there has still never been a majority.

StateYear
All-Woman Supreme Court (special sitting of the Supreme Court of Texas for a single case)1925
Arkansas2015–present
California2011–2017; 2022–present
District of Columbia2006–2013, 2017–present
Idaho 2023–present[18]
Illinois 2023–present[19]
Maryland2013–present
Michigan1997, 2009, 2021–present
Minnesota1991, 2016–present
Missouri2023–present[20]
Nevada2019–present[21]
New Jersey2011
New Mexico2015–present
New York2003–2008, 2013–2017
North Carolina2011
Ohio2002, 2005, 2011, 2018–2022
Oregon2017–present
Rhode Island2021–present
Tennessee2009–2021
Utah 2021-present
Vermont2017–present
Washington2013–present
Wisconsin2003–2004, 2007–present
West Virginia2017–present
Wyoming2018–present

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