The first African American woman from Ohio elected to the United States House of Representatives, who served the state’s eleventh congressional district for nearly ten years. Prior to her election to Congress, Tubbs Jones was Chief Prosecutor of Cuyahoga County.
In 1949, she became the first African-American woman elected to Cleveland City Council.
The first African-American woman judge in Ohio and the first to sit on the Ohio Industrial Commission, the highest state position ever held by an African-American woman at that time.
African-American civil rights lawyer and civic activist
American basketball champion, child welfare advocate and lawyer
The first practicing African American woman lawyer in Cleveland, and was also active in welfare work and politics.
Florence Ellinwood Allen (March 23, 1884-September 12, 1966) was a jurist whose career marked a series of firsts for women.
Lawyer Jennie E. Precker (1892-1981) founded the Susan B. Anthony Building and Loan Association, the nation’s first women’s bank, in Newark.
Mary Philbrook (1872-1958) was the first woman admitted to the bar in New Jersey.
Garibaldi was the first woman to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court and the 18th woman to serve on the Supreme Court overall.