Federal Courthouse in Minneapolis Named after Judge Murphy
Judge Diana Murphy was the first woman appointed to the federal bench in Minnesota in 1980.
MINNEAPOLIS–The federal courthouse in Minneapolis is being named after a judge who is seen as a trailblazer in the Twin Cities legal community. Judge Diana Murphy was the first woman appointed to the federal bench in Minnesota in 1980, and later became the first woman to sit on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. She died last year at the…
