death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation alma_mater
21 june 1996 nome , alaska 21 august 1920 lucile lomen
 lucile lomen lawyer university of washington school of law
lucile lomen

helen lucile lomen -lrb- august 21 , 1920 -- june 21 , 1996 -rrb- was the first woman to serve as a law clerk for a supreme court justice .
lomen was born in nome , alaska in 1920 .
her family later moved to seattle , where she graduated from high school in 1937 .
she then attended whitman college , from which she graduated with honors in 1941 .
lomen went to law school at the university of washington .
upon graduation , she went to washington , d.c. to clerk for supreme court justice william o. douglas -lrb- himself a whitman alum -rrb- for the 1944 -- 1945 term .
after her time at the supreme court , lomen turned down a position in the u.s. department of justice in favor of her home state of washington as assistant attorney general , where she served for three years .
she went on to a 35-year career in multiple positions for general electric including counsel for corporate affairs .
she retired in 1983 and died at the age of 75 in 1996 .
