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Jean H. Norris: [16] [17] [18] First female magistrate in New York City, New York (1919) Clarice Baright (1905): [121] First Jewish female magistrate in New York City, New York (c. 1925) Jane Bolin (1932): [21] [22] [23] First African American female admitted to the New York City Bar Association and to join the New York City Law Department
Kate Stoneman was the first woman to pass the New York Bar Exam in 1885. However, her application to the New York Bar was rejected in the spring of 1886 on the basis of her gender. [ 3 ] With the help of local suffragettes, Stoneman urged for the introduction and passage of a bill to allow for the admission of all qualified applicants ...
Margaret Brent: first woman to act as an attorney in the United States (1648) Arabella Mansfield: first woman admitted to practice law in the United States (1869) Charlotte E. Ray: First African American female lawyer in the United States and Washington, D.C. (1872) Lyda Conley: First Native American female lawyer in the United States (1902)
Norris became the first woman judge in New York in 1919. [9] Her first appointment to the bench was to fill a temporary opening, and then in 1920 [10] moving into permanent positions on the Court of Domestic Relations and the Women's Day Court. [11] She was elected president of the New York State Federation of Business and Professional Women's ...
1870 – Ada Kepley became the first woman to graduate from law school in the United States; she graduated from Chicago University Law School, predecessor to Union College of Law, later known as Northwestern University School of Law. [2] 1872 – Charlotte E. Ray became the first African-American female lawyer in the United States. [3] 1873 ...
1897 – Ethel Benjamin became the first female lawyer in New Zealand and the first to appear as counsel for any case in the British Empire. [10] [11] 1899 – The (American) National Association of Women Lawyers, originally called the Women Lawyers' Club, was founded by a group of 18 women lawyers in New York City. [4]
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After a brief time as a social worker, she decided to study law. In 1932, Carter became the first black woman to receive a law degree from Fordham University in New York City (Gray, 2007, n.p). In mid-May 1933, Eunice Carter passed the New York bar exam (Two New York Women, 6). Smith awarded her an honorary doctorate in law in 1938. [4]