Firsts in state history
Lawyers
- Bettie Runnels and Rose Cara Falls Bres (1898):[1][2] First female lawyers in Louisiana. Bres would become the first female lawyer to plead cases before the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Louisiana.
- Irene J. Barrios (1922):[3] First Latino American female lawyer in Louisiana
- Marian Berkett (1937):[4][5][6] First female lawyer hired by a law firm in Louisiana[7]
- Mary Gloria Lawson (1956):[8] First African American female lawyer in Louisiana
Law clerks
- Tammy Lee:[9] First African American female to serve as a law clerk for the Fourth Judicial District Court (1993)
- Veronica Odinet Koclanes:[10] First female to serve as the clerk of the court for Louisiana Supreme Court (2021)
State judges
- Anna Judge Veters Levy (c. 1922):[11][12] First female judge in Louisiana (1941)
- Alwine Louise Smith Ragland (1935):[13] First female elected judge (1974)[14]
- Joan Armstrong (1967):[15][16] First African American female judge in Louisiana (1974) and serve on the Louisiana Court of Appeals (1984)
- Catherine D. Kimball (1970):[17] First female elected to the Eighteenth Judicial District Court (1983) and serve on the Supreme Court of Louisiana (1992)
- Rae Swent:[18] First female to serve on the Ninth Judicial District Court in Louisiana
- Ann B. McIntyre (1977):[19][20] First female to serve on the Fifth Judicial District Court in Louisiana
- Felicia Toney Williams:[21] First female (and African American female) elected to the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal (1992) and serve as its Chief Judge (2018)
- Bernette Joshua Johnson (1969):[22][23] First African American female to serve as the Associate Justice (1994-2013) and Chief Justice for the Supreme Court of Louisiana (2013)
- Patricia Minaldi (1983):[24] First female elected as the Judge for the Fourteenth Judicial District Court in Louisiana (1995)
- Patricia Hedges:[25] First female appointed as a Judge of the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court in Louisiana (1995)
- Lori Landry:[26] First African American female appointed as a Judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District in Louisiana (2002)
- Jane Margaret Triche-Milazzo:[27] First female appointed as a Judge of the Twenty-Third Judicial District in Louisiana (2008)
- Bernadette D'Souza:[28] First Indian American female judge in Louisiana (2012)
- Monique F. Rauls (1993):[29] First African American female appointed as a Judge of the Ninth District Court in Louisiana (2015)
- Amy Burford-McCartney:[30] First female judge elected in the Forty-Second Judicial District in Louisiana (2016)
- Marissa Hutabarat (2010):[31][32] First Indonesian American (female) judge in Louisiana (2020)
- Marla M. Abel: [33] First female judge elected in the Seventeenth Judicial District in Louisiana (2019)
Federal judges
- Veronica DiCarlo Wicker:[34] First (Italian American) female to serve as a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana (1979)
- Nannette Jolivette Brown (1988):[35] First African American female to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (2011)
- Shelly Deckert Dick (1988):[36] First female to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana (2013)
Attorney General
- Liz Murrill:[37] First female to serve as the Attorney General of Louisiana (2024)
Assistant Attorney General
- Constance A. Koury (1980):[38] First female Assistant Attorney General of Louisiana (1997)
United States Attorney
- Stephanie A. Finley:[39] First female to serve as a U.S. Attorney in Louisiana (2010)
District Attorneys
- Keva Landrum-Johnson:[40][41][42][43] First female (and African American female) to serve as a District Attorney in Louisiana (2007)
- Bridget A. Dinvaut:[42][44][45] First African American female elected as a District Attorney in Louisiana (2015)
Assistant District Attorney
- Lori Landry:[26] First African American female to serve as an Assistant District Attorney for the Sixteenth Judicial District in Louisiana (c. 1993)