Lorna E. Lockwood

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Lorna Elizabeth Lockwood (1903 – 1977) was a Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. She was the first female Chief Justice of a state supreme court in the United States. In the 1960s she was almost nominated by President Lyndon Johnson to be the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court. Instead, Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to serve on the high court.

Lockwood died at the age of 74 from complication with pneumonia. It wouldn't be until 1981 that a woman would serve on the nation's highest court: Sandra Day O'Connor, appointed by President Ronald Reagan.

[edit] External links

• Lorna Lockwood at Womens Legal History Biography Project at Stanford University

Lorna Elizabeth Lockwood: In Pursuit of the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court Nomination

Preceded by Marlin T. Phelps	Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court 1961–1975	Succeeded by Frank X. Gordon, Jr.
Preceded by Jesse Addison Udall	Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court 1965	Succeeded by Fred C. Struckmeyer Jr.
Preceded by Jesse Addison Udall	Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court 1970	Succeeded by Fred C. Struckmeyer Jr.