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When 11th Circuit Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch looked for her first job as a lawyer, firms in New York and Philadelphia wouldn't interview her because she was a woman. Despite such obstacles, Kravitch went on to become Georgia's first female Superior Court judge in 1977, and two years later, she became the Southeast's first female federal appeals court judge. Now 80 years old, she still carries a significant court workload.