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• Prof. Luz Nagle – First tenured Hispanic law
professor at Stetson University College of Law (2004)
• Eugene Pettis – First African-American president
of The Florida Bar (2013)
• Justice Peggy Quince – First African-American
woman to lead a Florida branch of government,
serving as Chief Justice (2008); first African-American
woman appointed to the Florida Supreme Court
(1998); first African-American woman appointed to a
Florida District Court of Appeal (1993)
• Ruthann Robson – One of the first female
judicial law clerks in the Tampa Federal courthouse
(1980-1982)
• Marsha Rydberg – First female president of the
HCBA (1991)
• E.J. Salcines – First Hispanic State (prosecuting)
Attorney in Florida, first as the Thirteenth Judicial
Circuit County Solicitor, and then as State Attorney
(1968-1985)
• Lanse Scriven – First African-American president
of the HCBA (2005); first African-American member
of The Florida Bar Board of Governors from
Hillsborough County (2009)
• Judge Mary Scriven – First African-American
female federal judge in Florida (sworn in as
magistrate judge in 1997)
• Carolyn House Stewart – First African-American
female assistant state attorney in the Thirteenth
Judicial Circuit (1980); first African-American female
hired by a Fortune 500 company in Tampa (Jim
Walter Corp., 1978); first African-American female
from Hillsborough County appointed to The Florida
Board of Bar Examiners (2005)
• Delano Stewart – First African-American assistant
public defender, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit (1966)
• Susan Johnson-Velez – First African-American
female president of the HCBA (2013)
• Judge Charles Wilson – First African-American in
Tampa Bay appointed to the Eleventh Circuit Court
of Appeals (1999)
• Gwynne Young – First female assistant state
attorney in Hillsborough County (1974)
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