Allen, Florence Ellinwood
Biographical Chapter
Florence Ellinwood Allen
by Cindy Liou (2007)
Florence Allen Ellinwood: A Woman of Firsts
by John Russ (1997)
Florence Ellinwood Allen was a woman of firsts -- the first
woman elected judge, the first woman to sit on a state supreme
court, and the first woman to be appointed to an Article III federal
circuit court.
Allen, Florence Ellinwood.
Sicherman, Barbara and Green, Carol Hurd (Editors) Notable American Women: The Modern Period. A Biographical Dictionary
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Cambridge, MA: 1980.
The Sixth Circuit Biography: Florence Ellinwood Allen
(1884-1966)
History of the Sixth Circuit
Articles
"Interesting People: The First Woman Judge of a Common Plea Court Belives in 'Speeding up Justice'"
American Magazine, October 1921.
"First Woman Judge"
The Independent Woman, July 1921.
Book Review: Feminist Lawyers
by Barbara Allen Babcock
50 Stanford Law Review 1689 (1998)
15 Years of Advocacy: Women and the Law Time Line, 1619-1998
by Lisa Small
"[Florence E. Allen] The First Woman To Sit On A Supreme Court Bench: Florence
E. Allen is the most famous woman judge in the world - The story
of her unique career and of her experiences with witnesses, lawyers,
and juries, including women jurors"
The American Magazine, p. 19, 198-202
"Florence E. Allen Named Federal Judge: First Woman To Get Place On Circuit
Bench" (Regarding Nomination of Florence E. Allen to
the Sixth Circuit Court)
New York Times, March 7, 1934
"Judge Florence Allen" (Short Biography of Florence Allen)
by Percilla Lawyer Randolph
Woman Lawyers' Journal, Vol. 19 (Winter), 1932
"Miss
[Florance] Allen Talks Of Women's Gains: First Woman Named a U.S.
Circuit Judge Things Suffrage Improves Politics"
The New York Times, March 25, 1934. IX, 2:6
"Woman Elected Judge"
(Regarding election of Miss Florence E.
Allen to the Bench of the Common Pleas Court in Cuyahoga County,
Ohio)
by Edith E. Moriarty
Woman Citizen, July, 1921
"Florence E. Allen Dies: Retired Federal Jurist"
Washington Post, Sept 14, 1966
Book Review: Feminist Lawyers
by Barbara Allen Babcock
50 Stanford Law Review 1689 (1998)
A
Timeline of Women's Legal History in the United States
by Professor Cunnea and Lisa Small
A
Century of Achievement: The Centennial of the National Association
of Women Lawyers
by Selma Moidel Smith
85 Women Lawyers Journal 2 (Summer 1999)
*Originally printed as two articles: "...The First 50 Years,"
9 Experience 1 (Fall 1998), and "...The Second 50 Years,"
9 Experience 2 (Winter 1999)
Women
in the Federal Judiciary: Three Way Pavers and the Exhilarating
Change President Carter Wrought
by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Laura W. Brill
64 Fordham Law Review 281 (1995)
"Justice
Is Truth In Action: Success Is Being Won By Many Women In The
Administration Of Law and Justice"
Business Woman, 1923
Bibliography
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