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| Illustration of suffragist and lawyer Catharine Waugh McCulloch, elected as a justice of the peace in Illinois in 1907 (Long Valley [ID] Advocate, 16 May 1907) |
As the Law and Literature blog notes, Elizabeth D. Katz, professor of law at the University of Florida, discusses the history of often forgotten early female judges in "'May It Please Her Honor': The United States' First Women Judges, 1870–1930" in the Washington University Law Review. Some even obtained positions before passage of the 19th Amendment that granted US female citizens the right to vote.
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