Kathryn Sellers

Kathryn Sellers (December 25, 1870 – February 23, 1939) was the first woman to be appointed a federal judge in the United States. She was nominated to the head of the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia by President Woodrow Wilson in 1918.

Biography Sellers was born on December 25, 1870, in Broadway, Ohio. She worked as a bibliographer and librarian, and was employed by the weather bureau in Washington, D.C., and by the U.S. Department of State from 1900 to 1911. During this time Sellers became a member of the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson nominated Sellers to be head of the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia. The Senate confirmed Sellers later that year, making her the first woman appointed to the federal judiciary.

Sellers died on February 23, 1939, at her home in Washington, D.C.