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Here’s the list of individuals recognized at the
luncheon:
• Emmy Acton – First female Hillsborough County
Attorney (1990)
• Judge Henry Adams – First African-American
U.S. District Judge appointed to the Middle District
of Florida (1993)
• Prof. Dorothea Beane – First tenured African-
American law professor at Stetson University College
of Law (1990)
• Pam Bondi – First female Attorney General in
Florida (2011)
• Donna Bucella – First presidentially appointed and
U.S. Senate-confirmed female U.S. Attorney in
Florida (1999-2001)
• Judge Susan Bucklew – First female appointed as
county judge in Hillsborough County (sworn in
1982); first female appointed as circuit judge in
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit (sworn in 1986)
• Judge Lisa Campbell – First African-American
female judge in Hillsborough County who was
elected without having first been appointed (2008)
• Judge Vivian Corvo – First Hispanic female
circuit judge in Hillsborough County (elected 1996)
• Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington – First
Hispanic (of either gender) appointed as U.S. District
Court Judge in the Middle District of Florida (2004);
first Hispanic female to be named to the Second
District Court of Appeal (2001); first Cuban-
American woman to be named to any appellate court
in Florida (2001); first female supervisor in the
Tampa U.S. Attorney’s Office (1988)
• Judge Marva Crenshaw – First African-American
female circuit court judge in Hillsborough County
(2009)
• Warren Dawson – First African-American assistant
city attorney in the Tampa Bay area (1967); first
African-American to work in the federal office
building in Tampa (1966); first African-American
lawyer to work for the NLRB (1966)
• Julianne Holt – First female elected Public
Defender in Hillsborough County (sworn in 1993)
• Judge Miriam Irizarry – First female county court
judge in Pinellas County (2015)
• Arthenia Joyner – First African-American female
lawyer in Hillsborough County (1969)
• Judge Elizabeth Kovachevich – Elected to a
newly created Sixth Judicial Circuit Court Judgeship,
for Pinellas and Pasco, in 1972, and sworn in 1973,
as the first woman jurist in Tampa Bay
• Maria Chapa Lopez – First Hispanic female U.S.
Attorney in the Middle District of Florida (2018)
• Judge Mac McCoy – First openly gay person to
be sworn as federal judge in the Middle District of
Florida (2015)
• Judge Catherine McEwen – First female appointed
U.S. bankruptcy judge in the Tampa division of the
Middle District of Florida (2005)
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