Like most of the early women graduates of the law school, Genevieve Cline was active in local and national suffrage organizations. “There is no gender in the law,” she once declared. Shortly after her graduation from law school in 1921, President Warren G. Harding named her U.S. Appraiser of Merchandise to the Port of Cleveland, the first woman in America to serve as a federal appraiser. In 1928 President Calvin Coolidge nominated her to the United States Customs Court in New York, an appointment that enraged the New York Customs Bar. Judge Cline was a member of the Women’s Suffrage Party, President of the Women’s Republican League, President of the Cleveland Federation of Women’s Clubs, and a member of the National Association of Women Lawyers.