Rhoda Valentine Lewis
Rhoda Valentine Lewis was the first female justice on the Supreme Court of Hawaii.Biography
Lewis was born in Chicago on August 31, 1906, to parents Charles Tobias and Josephine Lewis. She moved to Honolulu and attended the Punahou School; then moved to Manila, and attended the American-European School; and graduated from the Frances Willard Jr. High School in Berkeley, California. She graduated from Stanford University in 1927, and received her Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 1929, graduating first in her class, and becoming a member of the Order of the Coif. She worked for a former Stanford Professor, before working for a law firm in Buffalo, New York.
