Retired San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ollie Marie-Victoire, one of the first women judges on the local bench, died Saturday of pancreatic cancer. She was 88.

Colleagues remember Marie-Victoire as a staunch supporter of women’s rights who made waves when she dismissed more than100 cases against prostitutes in 1975. The law against prostitution, she ruled, was unconstitutionally applied and enforced, because women prostitutes were arrested disproportionately more than their male customers.