The number of women in the United States judiciary has increased as more women have entered law school, but women still face significant barriers in pursuing legal careers.
Esteban Carpio is an American murderer, who is serving a life sentence without parole for killing a detective during an interrogation at a Providence, Rhode Island police station in 2005.
Bruce Marshall Selya is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and former chief judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review who is known for his distinctive writing style.
David A. Caprio is an American businessman, investor, lawyer, and politician who served as a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from District 34. He was first elected on December 21, 1999. In 2010, Caprio was defeated in a September primary election.
Prostitution in Rhode Island was outlawed in 2009. On November 3, 2009, Republican Governor Donald Carcieri signed into law a bill which makes the buying and selling of sexual services a crime.
William Philip Robinson III is an American lawyer, academic, and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She was previously a Rhode Island Superior Court justice.
The Rhode Island Superior Court is the state trial court of general jurisdiction in Rhode Island.
Ada Lewis Sawyer (1892–1985) was an American lawyer. She is remembered as the first woman to take and pass the bar exam in the state of Rhode Island.
Florence Kerins Murray was a high-ranking officer in the Women's Army Corps, the first female state senator in Rhode Island, the first female judge in Rhode Island and the first female member of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
Richard A. Licht is an American judge and lawyer who served as the Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Rhode Island from 1985 to 1989. A Democrat, he previously served in the Rhode Island State Senate from 1973 to 1984. He is an alumnus of Harvard Law School. His uncle, Frank Licht, served as Governor of Rhode Island from 1969 to 1973.
Melissa Austin Long is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court since 2021. She previously served as an associate justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court from 2017 to 2021.
Lara Elizabeth Montecalvo is an American lawyer from Rhode Island who has served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit since 2022.
Melissa Raye DuBose is an American lawyer who has served as an associate judge of the Rhode Island District Court since 2019. She is the designate to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island.
Michael A. Silverstein is a retired American judge who served as an associate justice on the Rhode Island Superior Court. He was known for handling significant and complex cases, and for his involvement in creating and heading the Rhode Island Superior Court's Business Calendar, a specialized business court docket within the Superior Court.
Brian P. Stern is an American judge who has been serving on the Rhode Island Superior Court since August 2009. Since 2011, he has been assigned to the Business Calendar, a business court program in the Superior Court, where he has rendered significant rulings and initiated the creation of a program to help businesses economically survive during the COVID-19 pandemic.
