Allen, Florence Ellinwood

Born: 1884 AD
Died: 1966 AD, at 82 years of age.

Nationality: American
Categories: Jurist

1884 - Florence Ellenwood Allen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. on March 23, 1884.

1904 - She graduated from Western Reserve University.

1906-1909 - She was a music critic for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

1908 - She received a master's degree in political science from Western Reserve.

1913 - She completed a degree of law at New York University.

1914 - She was admitted to Ohio bar.

1919 - She was appointed as assistant prosecutor of Cuyahoga county.

1920 - She served as the first woman elected as judge of the court of common pleas.

1922 - She was elected in Ohio Supreme Court and became the first woman to sit on a state supreme court.

1928 - She was re-elected by a large majority and the first woman to sit on any court of last resort.

1934 - She was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the US Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

1940 - She published her work entitled This Constitution of Ours.

1952 - She published her work entitled The Treaty as an Instrument of Legislation.

1959 - She was the first woman chief judge of United States Court of Appeals.

1965 - She published a volume of memoirs entitled To Do Justly.

1966 - She died in Waite Hill, Ohio on September 12, 1966.

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	Outlawry of war;: Address delivered by Judge Florence Allen of the Ohio Supreme Court before the fourth annual convention of the National League of Women Voters at Des Moines, Iowa, April 11, 1923 by Florence Ellinwood Allen (Unknown Binding - Jul 25, 2008)
	The Ohio woman suffrage movement: "A certain unalienable right" : what Ohio women did to secure it by Florence Ellinwood Allen (Unknown Binding - Jul 25, 2008)
	Lectures on the four freedoms, (Scripps college bulletin, vol XVIII, no. I) by Florence Ellinwood Allen (Unknown Binding - Jul 25, 2008)
	Crime in present day society by Florence Ellinwood Allen (Unknown Binding - Jul 25, 2008)
	The role of the law in establishing freedom;: Abstract of address by Judge Florence E. Allen, United States Court of Appeals, for the Sixth Circuit, Dallas, Texas, August 26, 1956 by Florence Ellinwood Allen (Unknown Binding - Jul 25, 2008)
	Participation of women in government by Florence Ellinwood Allen (Unknown Binding - Jul 25, 2008)