List of female state supreme court justices

List of female state supreme court justices

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State	Justice	Year

Alabama	Janie Shores	1974

Alaska	Dana Fabe	1996

Arizona	Lorna E. Lockwood	1961

Arkansas	Elsijane Trimble Roy	1976

California	Rose Bird	1977

Colorado	Jean Dubofsky	1979

Connecticut	Ellen Ash Peters	1978

Delaware	Carolyn Berger	1994

District of Columbia	Catherine B. Kelly	1967

Florida	Rosemary Barkett	1985

Georgia	Leah Ward Sears	1992

Hawaii	Rhoda V. Lewis	1959

Idaho	Linda Copple Trout	1992

Illinois	Mary Ann G. McMorrow	1992

Indiana	Myra Consetta Selby	1995

Iowa	Linda Kinnedy Neuman	1986

Kansas	Kay McFarland	1977

Kentucky	Sara W. Combs	1993

Louisiana	Catherine D. Kimball	1992

Maine	Caroline Duby Glassman	1983

Maryland	Rita C. Davidson	1979

Massachusetts	Ruth Abrams	1978

Michigan	Mary Coleman	1973

Minnesota	Rosalie E. Wahl	1977

Mississippi	Lenore L. Prather	1982

Missouri	Ann K. Covington	1988

Montana	Diane Barz	1989

Nebraska	Lindsey Miller-Lerman	1998

Nevada	Miriam Shearing	1992

New Hampshire	Linda S. Dalianis	2000

New Jersey	Marie L. Garibaldi	1982

New Mexico	Mary Coon Walters	1984

New York	Judith Kaye	1983

North Carolina	Susie Sharp	1962

North Dakota	Beryl J. Levine	1985

Ohio	Florence Ellinwood Allen	1923

Oklahoma	Alma Bell Wilson	1982

Oregon	Betty Roberts	1982

Pennsylvania	Anne X. Alpern	1961

Rhode Island	Florence K. Murray	1979

South Carolina	Jean H. Toal	1988

South Dakota	Judith Meierhenry	2002

Tennessee	Martha Craig Daughtrey	1990

Texas	Ruby Kless Sondock	1982

Utah	Christine M. Durham	1982

Vermont	Denise R. Johnson	1990

Virginia	Elizabeth B. Lacy	1988

Washington	Carolyn R. Dimmick	1981

West Virginia	Margaret Workman	1988

Wisconsin	Shirley Abrahamson	1976

Wyoming	Marylin Stebner Kite	2000

United States Supreme Court	Sandra Day O'Connor	1981

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Shirley Abrahamson was the female justice appointed to the court in 1976 to serve in Wisconsin.

final_sentence: Shirley Abrahamson was the female justice appointed to the court in 1976 to serve in Wisconsin.