Rita Charmatz Davidson Content type Biography Blog Encyclopedia Article Lesson Plan Oral History Podcast Collection We Remember This Week in History The Feminist Revolution Women Rabbis Women of Valor Power Couples Soviet Jewry Baltimore DC Katrina Seattle Western Pioneers Rita Charmatz Davidson Rita Charmatz Davidson’s career in the Maryland court system was a series of hard-earned firsts, leading to her 1979 appointment as the first woman on the Maryland Court of Appeals, the highest judicial body in the state.