Sentences with phrase «first woman appointed»

«I've always thought REALTORS ® should be involved in community affairs,» says Kees, who, in the early»90s, became the first woman appointed to Orangeburg County's Economic Development Commission.

Bertha Wilson broke ground in 1975 as the first woman appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and again in 1982 when she became the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Bertha Wilson 1959 — Called to the Bar in Ontario 1968 — Named first female partner of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt 1975 — Appointed to Ontario Court of Appeal 1982 — First woman appointed to Supreme Court of Canada 1988 — Morgentaler decision on abortion 1990 — Lavallee decision on battered women's syndrome

[13] Bertha Wilson was the first woman appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1975, and the first appointed to the Supreme Court in 1982, while Justice Harry LaForme's appointment to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2004 was the first appointment of an aboriginal person to any appellate court in Canada (or, indeed, the Commonwealth).

She is the first First Nations woman to earn a law degree in Canada, the first non-Parliamentarian to be appointed an ex-officio member of a special House of Commons committee, the first Indigenous Commissioner of the Indian Commission of Ontario, the first woman appointed Ontario's Ombudsman and the first woman elected Chief of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory.

She was the first woman appointed to lead the provincial court when she became chief judge in May 2006.

She was the first woman appointed to the school's full - time architecture faculty and tenured in 1993.

Trained at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles (when it was the Los Angeles County Art Institute) and at the San Francisco Art Institute, Schulz was the first woman appointed to the art faculty at UC Davis.

Among her numerous awards and honors, Hepworth was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire (1965), and became the first woman Appointed Trustee of the Tate Gallery, London (1965).

In 1975, she became the first woman appointed to the New Jersey State Board of Architects.

Documentary on Palestinian Judge Kholoud Al - Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in the Middle East.

Mildred Cohn, the first female president of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the first woman appointed to the Journal of Biological Chemistry editorial board, passed away on Oct. 12 at age 96.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following about former Chief Judge Judith Kaye, the State's first female Chief Judge and first woman appointed to the Court of Appeals: «Judge Kaye was a trailblazer in her own right and a fearless pioneer for justice.

Hosting up to 30 non-permanent rotating judges, McLachlin will be the first Canadian to sit on the court and will be amongst the first women appointed.

Not exact matches

More women than men are being appointed to the boards of Australia's top 200 companies for the first time on record.

In July, American Apparel appointed the first two women to its board of directors after its now ousted CEO got caught up in a sexual harassment scandal.

The two first female attorneys - general in BC history were appointed, Our 125,000 + civil service, finance ministry and largest Crown corporation were run by women, and more than a third of our government board appointees were women.

And it is a dismissive, hurtful way to speak about women, who Piper seems to have forgotten were also created in the image of God, were appointed by God as leaders at critical times in the history of Israel and the Church, and were the first to whom Jesus appeared when he inaugurated his new Kingdom on Resurrection Day.

The mode of election whereby God appoints individuals to their lifework is seen as not different in character from the mode whereby he elects them to serve him as men or women, as American or Asian, as first - or twentieth - century men.

Are we to assume that if first century Semite culture» had allowed it Jesus would have appointed women apostles and addressed God as Mother?

She was appointed her as the Bishop of Crediton two and a half years ago becoming one of the first women to be appointed to the senior role.

The Labour party appointed Seema Malhotra as the first - ever shadow minister to tackle violence against women and girls, and the Archbishop of Canterbury vocalised his backing for Christian charity Restored, which is equipping the Church to tackle gender - based violence.

Since the Anglican Church voted «yes» to women bishops in July, speculation has mounted that the first female bishop will be appointed before the end of the year.

At an first - meet date with a man I met online recently, he was dis - appointed that women don't message men first.

Justice Sheila Abdus - Salaam, the first black woman appointed to New York State's highest court, and the first Muslim woman to serve as a U.S. judge, was found dead in the Hudson River off Manhattan yesterday afternoon, authorities said.

Kristina Johnson, an engineer who developed technology critical to 3 - D movies and served as under secretary in the U.S. Energy Department before founding a hydroelectric company, will be appointed chancellor of the SUNY, replacing outgoing Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, the first woman to hold the post.

RIP Sandra Townes, a former English teacher at Corocoran High School who went on to become the first black woman appointed as a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York.

He appointed the first woman judge, former Chief Judge Judith Kaye, as well as the first African - American judge on the court.

Corbyn came under criticism following his first round of Shadow Cabinet appointments, failing to appoint more women to senior positions and undermining his commitment to bring in «fresh faces».

In the case of first headships, nearly six times as many women as men were appointed internally; taking a career break increases the time it takes to achieve promotion.

ALBANY — Following a meeting with the mothers and relatives of 10 men and women who died in interactions with police officers, Governor Andrew Cuomo indicated for the first time that he would unilaterally appoint a special prosecutor to review such cases if the Legislature didn't act on his proposal for an independent police monitor.

«As the first African - American woman to be appointed to the State's Court of Appeals, she was a pioneer.

Cuomo has already appointed three women to the court, one is an Hispanic and one is the court's first African - American and Muslim judge.

The first black woman appointed to New York State's highest court, and the first Muslim woman to serve as a U.S. judge, was found dead in the Hudson River off Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.

Taking silk I was 35 when I took silk, in 1991, and I was the first black woman to be appointed.

Melissa DeRosa, who was appointed by Cuomo in April as the first woman to serve as secretary, the top unelected position in the state, tweeted: «Limiting the problem to one man, political party or profession misses the whole point of the #MeToo moment.»

He appointed the first woman judge, former Chief Judge Judith Kaye, as well as the first African American judge on the court.

In 2002, she was head - hunted as director general and chief economic advisor at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills - the first woman to be appointed to the role.

i. Being the first woman to be appointed the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum Downstream.

The details of the policy agreement came to light as Cameron appointed his first full cabinet, which includes five Liberal Democrats and four women — including the first female Muslim member of the cabinet.

Abdus - Salaam was the first African - American woman appointed to the Court of Appeals.

«Must be dealt with across the board,» said Ms. DeRosa, who was appointed in April, by Mr. Cuomo, as the first woman to serve as secretary, the top unelected position in the state.

However, she was first appointed spokesman for the environment and shadow minister for women - both were non-frontbench positions.

In 1921 she was appointed a magistrate, one of the first women magistrates in Britain.

Dr. Trevor Cates was the first woman licensed as a naturopathic doctor in the state of California and was appointed to California's Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine Advisory Council.

Banana Republic, which grabbed the industry's attention when it appointed Marissa Webb — formerly the head of J.Crew's womenswear division — as its creative director last April, will be staging a presentation for its men's and women's collections for the first time, a spokesperson for the company has confirmed.

First Woman Judge Appointed By Palestine Court Tells Her Story In TIFF Premiere «The Judge» — Watch

Our monthly VFF @ Violet Crown series continues with Ericka Cohn's documentary which follows the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East's religious courts.

In 2000, Dr. Ackerman was the first woman to be appointed superintendent of the San Francisco schools.

That they're different as day and night is unarguable, but the first two women appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court elevated one another, and the status of women in this country, immeasurably through their combined efforts.