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= Vivian Sue Shields = Vivian Sue Blodgett Shields was the first woman to be elected to an Indiana general jurisdiction trial court, the first woman to ever serve on the appeals court, and the first woman to serve as a magistrate judge in the district courts of Indiana. She was also an attorney and served as the regional counsel for the Internal Revenue Service in Ohio. She also served as the Deputy Attorney General for the state of Indiana.

Early Life & Education
Vivian Shields was born in Wilmore, Kentucky on 17 January, 1939 to Ralph and Virginia Blodgett. She lived in multiple places including Indiana, California, Florida, and Virginia due to her father being a military chaplain. She also spent the late 1940s and early 1950s in Germany, before the airlift. She graduated high school in Central Indiana, from New Palestine High School in 1955. She then went to Ball State Teachers College (now Ball State University) and graduated with a Bachelor's in Arts in 1958. She obtained an LL.B from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 1961 as Order of the Coif and she was the only woman in her class.

Legal Career
She spent a year as an attorney and regional Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service in Ohio. She then became the Deputy Attorney General for the state of Indiana in 1962. She became the first woman to be elected to an Indiana general jurisdiction judgeship in 1964, at the age of twenty-five, when she was elected to the Hamilton County Superior Court. She served in this position till 1978, after which she became the first woman to be appointed to the Indiana Court of Appeals.