sentences:  She won election to a twelve-year term on the court of appeal later in 1942, but retired in 1952 for health reasons.In her time on the court, she wrote over 350 opinions.In 1950, she served by special assignment on one case in the California Supreme Court, becoming the first woman to sit on that court ("Gardner v. Jonathon Club" (1950) 35 Cal.2d 343) 
  
  Adams died in Sacramento in 1956.