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Martha Symons Boies Boies
The first woman in the world appointed as a bailiff.
Martha Symons Boies was the first woman in the world appointed as a bailiff. Her appointment took place in March of 1870 in Laramie, Wyoming. Her appointment was necessitated by the fact that women had been chosen to sit on a jury and a woman bailiff was needed to guard their hotel room doors after the jury was sequestered for the evening.

Martha Symons Boies arrived in Laramie, then known as "tent city", in a horse drawn cart with her children in 1868.