About Rita C. Davidson
Lived 1928 – 1984 (aged 56). Rita C. Davidson was a judge.
Rita C. Davidson (September 1, 1928 – November 11, 1984) was a lawyer and public servant who was the first woman to serve on the Maryland Court of Appeals. Davidson was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of Lithuanian and Latvian Jewish immigrants by way of Russia. She graduated from Goucher College in 1948 and Yale Law School in 1951.
She worked in private practice in Washington, D.C., and was active in politics in Montgomery County, Maryland. In 1970, Governor Marvin Mandel appointed her as the secretary of Employment and Social Services, the first woman named to a Maryland governor's cabinet.
Davidson died of cancer on November 11, 1984, at her home in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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Rita C. Davidson was born on 1 September 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City.
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Rita C. Davidson died on 11 November 1984.
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Rita C. Davidson was a judge.
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