John Claggett Danforth is an American politician,attorney and diplomat who began his career in 1968 as the Attorney General of Missouri and served three terms as United States Senator from Missouri. In 2004,he served briefly as United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Danforth is an ordained Episcopal priest.
Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood was an American lawyer,politician,educator,and author who was active in the women's rights and women's suffrage movements. She was one of the first women lawyers in the United States,and in 1879 she became the first woman to be admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court. Lockwood ran for president in 1884 and 1888 on the ticket of the National Equal Rights Party and was the first woman to appear on official ballots. While Victoria Woodhull is commonly cited as the first woman to run for president,she was not old enough to run,unlike Lockwood.
Yvonne Kauger is an associate justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court,and was appointed to the Court's District 4 seat by Governor George Nigh in 1984,and served as chief justice from 1997 to 1998. She was born in New Cordell,Oklahoma,and grew up in Colony,Oklahoma,and is an honorary member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Kauger founded the Gallery of the Plains Indian in Colony,Oklahoma and is also the co-founder of the Red Earth organization. Kauger also serves as Symposium Coordinator of the Sovereignty Symposium. Kauger was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 2001.
James Harry Covington was a United States representative from Maryland and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. He founded the major law firm of Covington &Burling.
Steven Michael Colloton is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since 2003.
Laura Denvir Stith is a former judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri. She served from 2001 to 2021. She was elected by her fellow Supreme Court justices to serve a two-year term as Chief Justice,from July 1,2007,to June 30,2009,becoming the second woman to serve as Missouri's highest-ranking jurist.
Ellen Ash Peters is an American lawyer and judge. She was appointed to the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1978. She was the first woman appointed to that court.
Virginia Maria Hernandez Covington is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Gerald Bard Tjoflat is an American lawyer and Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Mary Stallings Coleman (1914–2001) was a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1973 until 1982.
Yvette McGee Brown became the first African-American female justice on the Ohio Supreme Court when she took office on January 1,2011. She was the founding president of the Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Children's Hospital,and was a judge of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas for nine years.
Covington is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Cheryl Ann Krause is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Linda K. Neuman is an American attorney and jurist who served as a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court from August 4,1986,to July 11,2003. She was appointed from Scott County,Iowa.
Robert Francis Stephens,Jr. was an American politician,lawyer,and judge.
Alma Bell Wilson was an Oklahoma attorney who was appointed as the second female district judge in the state of Oklahoma in 1975. In 1982,she was elevated as the first woman to serve on the Oklahoma Supreme Court and between 1995 and 1997 was the first woman chief justice. Wilson was honored by many awards in her lifetime including induction into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame,the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and was named Appellate Judge of the Year in both 1986 and 1989.
Lois Colleen Maddox better known as Connie Boochever was a performer,director and producer of community theater and lifelong patron and advocate for the arts.
Connie Wible Murray is an American politician.
Lenore Loving Prather was the Supreme Court of Mississippi’s first female justice and chief justice. Prather began her law career as an attorney and city court judge throughout the 1960s. After working as a Chancery judge in the 1970s,she became a Supreme Court judge for Mississippi in 1982. Prather was later promoted to Chief Justice in 1998 and held this position until 2001.
