New King James Version (NKJV)
11 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal heirs. 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were being murdered; and they hid him and his nurse in the bedroom, from Athaliah, so that he was not killed. 3So he was hidden with her in the house of the Lord for six years, while Athaliah reigned over the land.
She was never appointed to rule over Judah but refused to allow her baby grandson to rule, instead assuming the throne for herself - short lived as it was.
The first woman judge in The Bible is called Deborah.
The story of Deborah is found in Judges 4:4.
It states in verse 4 ....."Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time and she would sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the mountains of Ephraim. And the children of Israel came up to her for judgement."
Deborah
She is the first woman in history to be the first Hebrew judge :) Natile
Deborah .
The first woman killed in the Bible was Lots' wife
Othniel
Anna Chandy from Kerala became India's first woman judge in 1937.
Deborah
There were no beauty contests recorded in the Bible.
Deborah, who because Barak chickened out, led Israel into battle.
Justice M. Fathima Beevi was the first woman judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of India in1989 and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to any higher judiciary. She is the first woman judge of a Supreme Court of a nation in India and Asia.
Rachel
Eve was the first in the bible.
Sonia Sotomayor was the third woman in the supreme court and the first Hispanic judge