Patricia Wald, First Woman to Preside Over D.C. Appeals Court, Dies at 90

01/14/2019 7:00 AM | Deleted user

NY Times

Januay 12, 2019

 

 

 Patricia M. Wald, who was the first woman to serve as chief judge of the federal appeals court in Washington and who later wrote seminal rulings while serving in The Hague on the international court for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, died on Saturday at her home in Washington. She was 90.

 

 

 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/12/obituaries/patricia-wald-dead.html