Genevieve Rose Cline, who lived from July 27, 1877, to October 25, 1959, was the first woman to serve in the United States federal judiciary, appointed as an Article I judge on the United States Customs Court, the predecessor to today's Court of International Trade. President Calvin Coolidge nominated her on May 4, 1928, the Senate confirmed her on May 25, and she took her oath of office at the Cleveland Federal Building on June 5, 1928. She served on the Customs Court from 1928 until 1953, a tenure that broke the gender barrier in federal judicial service decades before other women reached the federal bench, and she died in Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of eighty-two.
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