Who was the first female U.S.
Federal District Judge, who
appointed her to the postion,
and in what year?

Bonus query: What (in)famous
bribery trial did she preside over?

Burnita Shelton Matthews was appointed
to the District Court of the District of Columbia
in 1949 by President Harry S. Truman.

Presided over the 1957 bribery trial of future Teamsters Union President Jimmy Hoffa. He was acquitted.

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