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1973
Judge Susan H. Black becomes the rst woman county court judge in Florida following her appointment to the Duval County bench. She later became the rst woman circuit court judge in Florida in 1975, and the rst woman appointed to the federal bench in Florida in 1979.
1985
Rosemary Barkett becomes the rst woman appointed as a justice of the Florida Supreme Court.
1986
Mary “Kitty” Phillips becomes the rst woman president of the Jacksonville Bar Association.
1978
Janet Reno became the rst woman to serve as a state attorney in Florida.
1993
Patricia Ann Seitz becomes the rst woman president of The Florida Bar.
1998
Peggy A. Quince becomes the rst African-American woman appointed as a justice of the Florida Supreme Court.
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2008
Angela Corey becomes the rst woman elected state attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit.
2010
Pam Bondi becomes the rst woman to serve as the attorney general of Florida.
2013
Judge Patricia Barksdale becomes the rst woman federal magistrate in the Jacksonville Division of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
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