• Thumbnail for Clara Shortridge Foltz
    Clara Shortridge Foltz (July 16, 1849 – September 2, 1934) was an American lawyer, the first female lawyer on the West Coast, and the pioneer of the idea...
    13 KB (1,399 words) - 09:25, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center
    The Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center (formerly known as the Criminal Courts Building) is the county criminal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles...
    8 KB (678 words) - 02:20, 6 November 2023
  • lawyer and founder of the public defender, Clara Shortridge Foltz (Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz, Stanford University Press, 2011). The book...
    18 KB (1,763 words) - 05:26, 7 March 2023
  • Foltz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Clara Shortridge Foltz, the first female lawyer on the West Coast Jerry Foltz, American professional...
    589 bytes (118 words) - 00:55, 22 May 2017
  • Thumbnail for Clara (given name)
    Clara Novello Davies (1861–1943), Welsh singer Clara Eliot (1896–1976), economist Clara Faragó (1905–1944), Hungarian chess master Clara Shortridge Foltz...
    10 KB (1,227 words) - 05:50, 2 May 2024
  • Shortridge is a surname. Notable people with the name include Clara Shortridge Foltz (1849–1934), American lawyer Belle Hunt Shortridge (1858–1893), American...
    954 bytes (152 words) - 17:12, 30 March 2019
  • Thumbnail for Charles M. Shortridge
    Senator Samuel M. Shortridge and Clara Shortridge Foltz, he served as a member of the California State Senate from 1899 to 1907. Shortridge was born in Pleasant...
    6 KB (553 words) - 13:11, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Los Angeles City Hall
    Spring Street—across from current City Hall (now parking lot for Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center) 1860s–1884: relocated to Los Angeles County...
    22 KB (2,224 words) - 23:46, 14 March 2024
  • single biography - that of Clara S. Foltz[1], the first woman lawyer in California. In the course of writing her life, Foltz's biographer, Professor Barbara...
    2 KB (229 words) - 22:32, 6 January 2022
  • Thumbnail for Los Angeles County Superior Court
    Center Central Arraignment Court Central Civil West Courthouse Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center David V. Kenyon Juvenile Justice Center...
    19 KB (1,504 words) - 04:37, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of first women lawyers and judges in California
    Mary McHenry Keith: First female law graduate in California (1882) Clara Shortridge Foltz (1878): First female lawyer (and notary public) in California Christine...
    157 KB (14,182 words) - 01:40, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lawyer
    Clara Shortridge Foltz, admitted to the California Bar through an examination before attending law school...
    86 KB (10,963 words) - 18:55, 13 May 2024
  • Bronx, including the National Legal Aid & Defender Association’s Clara Shortridge Foltz Award. As of early 2016, the office had 250 employees working in...
    6 KB (440 words) - 02:35, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1930 California gubernatorial election
    incumbent Governor Milton K. Young, Democratic candidate (cross-filing) Clara Shortridge Foltz, Deputy District Attorney of Los Angeles County "California Republican...
    5 KB (76 words) - 16:29, 24 February 2024
  • Lady Managers, Clara Shortridge Foltz made her first highly public presentation of her idea of the public defender. Then, due to Foltz's persistent efforts...
    8 KB (782 words) - 04:14, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lafayette, Indiana
    Jersey Governor James Florio, served as the First Lady of New Jersey Clara Shortridge Foltz (1849–1934) – first female lawyer on the West Coast Joseph García...
    45 KB (3,601 words) - 18:43, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Women's suffrage in California
    suffragist Clara Shortridge Foltz to pass the 1878 Woman Lawyer's Bill which allowed women to practice law in the state of California. Foltz was a mother...
    22 KB (2,439 words) - 02:22, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Samuel M. Shortridge
    Samuel Morgan Shortridge (August 3, 1861 – January 15, 1952) was a Republican Senator from California. Shortridge was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa and...
    6 KB (499 words) - 04:57, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Inglewood Park Cemetery
    Fitzgerald (1917–1996), singer Curt Flood (1938–1997), baseball player Clara Shortridge Foltz (1849–1934), first female lawyer on the West Coast. Byron Foulger...
    19 KB (1,844 words) - 10:09, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Los Angeles County District Attorney
    Los Angeles Incumbent George Gascón since December 7, 2020 Seat Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center 210 West Temple Street Los Angeles, California...
    5 KB (149 words) - 12:10, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Civic Center, Los Angeles
    Site of California State Building (1931-1976, vacant) Law Library Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center (1972) Between Spring and Main: Spring St...
    16 KB (1,401 words) - 22:36, 20 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Local government in the United States
    City of Los Angeles government offices. Visible in the background are the Los Angeles City Hall and the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center....
    67 KB (8,068 words) - 14:00, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Temple City, California
    yes, I've got to prove my innocence," Wilson, 78, said at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center when asked if she was going forward with...
    39 KB (3,923 words) - 15:32, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Women in the United States judiciary
    to the Washington, D.C., bar after a yearlong dispute. In 1878, Clara Shortridge Foltz became the first woman to be admitted to practice law in the state...
    65 KB (6,396 words) - 16:39, 16 May 2024
  • California's first female attorney, Clara Shortridge Foltz, came up with the idea of the public defender. Foltz was growing concerned with the prosecutors...
    39 KB (5,223 words) - 23:45, 10 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Times Mirror Square
    International Savings & Exchange Bank Building Hall of Justice Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center Steven Sharp (July 8, 2020). "Two Design...
    12 KB (1,145 words) - 23:54, 23 January 2024
  • Cunningham Annie LePorte Diggs Clara Driscoll Katherine Philips Edson Sarah Elizabeth Van De Vort Emery Clara Shortridge Foltz Judith Ellen Horton Foster...
    132 KB (13,536 words) - 04:21, 14 December 2023
  • branch offices in Torrance and Compton. He began working at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in 1984. He represented G. Gordon Liddy...
    4 KB (382 words) - 11:37, 15 April 2024
  • Brown Ingersoll Cooper Henry Clay Dibble Nellie Blessing Eyster Clara Shortridge Foltz Sarah Dix Hamlin Ida Harper Harriet Hobe Emma Shafter Howard Sarah...
    32 KB (2,478 words) - 13:37, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Historic Broadway station
    Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral of Saint Vibiana Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center Continental Building Grand Central Market...
    12 KB (953 words) - 04:56, 8 May 2024