Ann Aldrich joined the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law faculty in 1968, where she became the school’s first female tenured professor, taught a pioneering clinical environmental law class, and recruited minority students and professors. One of her many mentees was fellow Hall of Fame Honoree Judge Patricia Blackmon (1975). In 1980 she became the first woman nominated to the federal bench in Ohio when President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. She retired in 1995 but continued working as a senior federal judge until her passing.