The Honorable Alice Lee Gilbert, most recently of Bloomfield Township, died Dec. 9. She was 88.
Her prolific and storied career was launched when she graduated from law school in 1956 as one of just two women in a class of 124. The next several decades would see Judge Gilbert as a woman of many âfirsts.â Among them, first female judge elected to Oakland County Circuit Court â which also made her the first female to hold a county-wide position for Oakland  â first female member of the Oakland County Bar Association, and first judge in Michigan to utilize and implement computer technology for court administration, in 1969. She was also a founding member of the Michigan Chapter of National Organization of Woman and the Oakland County Womenâs Bar Association.