Florence Ellinwood Allen
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Judge Florence Ellinwood Allen, holding the flag, outside the Woman suffrage headquarters in Upper Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
Florence Ellinwood Allen (March 23, 1884 - September 12, 1966) was raised in Cleveland, where she attended Case Western Reserve University and joined the Sigma Psi sorority. She became an American jurist of the 20th Century. When elected to the Ohio Supreme Court in 1922, she became the first woman to sit on a state supreme court. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Allen to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 1934, she became the first woman to serve on an Article III federal court. Finally, in 1959, Allen became the first woman to be chief judge of a United States Court of Appeals. Later in life, she wrote an autobiography called To Do Justly.
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- Russ, J. A. 1997. Florence Ellinwood Allen
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