Stephanie Kulp Seymour 05/24/2011

Born in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1940. In 1965 she was one of twenty-three women to graduate from Harvard Law School in a class of 550 students. She was nominated to the Tenth Circuit by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 where she served until 2005. She served as Chief Judge of the Tenth Circuit from 1994 to 2000, making her the first female judge to serve on the Tenth Circuit as well as the first female Chief Judge of the Tenth Circuit. She was also the first woman to serve as chair of the United States Judicial Conference. She was inducted in the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 2005.