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Mary Lilly (1895): [112] First female (a lawyer) elected to the New York State legislature (1918) Geraldine Ferraro (1961): [113] First female (a lawyer) vice presidential candidate for a major U.S. political party (1984) Hillary Clinton (1973): [114] First female (a lawyer) Senator for New York (2000). She would later become the first female U ...
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)
Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood (October 24, 1830 – May 19, 1917) was an American lawyer, politician, educator, and author who was active in the women's rights and women's suffrage movements. She was one of the first women lawyers in the United States, and in 1879 she became the first woman to be admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Eunice Roberta Hunton Carter (July 16, 1899 – January 25, 1970) was an American lawyer. She was one of New York's first female African-American lawyers and one of the first African-American prosecutors in the United States.
Kate graduated from Albany Law School of Union University, a private independent law school founded in 1851. She graduated in 1866 and began teaching at the Glens Falls Seminary. She later taught at her alma mater, the Albany Normal School. She was the first female president of their alumni association, and served as Vice-Principal. [2]
Preferring social legislation to practicing law, Polier worked as the first woman referee and in 1934 Assistant Corporate Council for the Workman's Compensation Division. [4] In 1935, New York City Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia made Polier a judge on the Domestic Relations Court. [7] At age 32, she became the first woman judge in New York State ...
Much more information on the subject can be found at: List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States. 1869 - Lemma Barkaloo became the first woman in America admitted to law school at Washington University in St. Louis. 1869 – Arabella Mansfield became the first female lawyer in the United States when she was admitted to the Iowa ...
Jane Matilda Bolin was born on April 11, 1908, in Poughkeepsie, New York.She was an only child. Her father, Gaius C. Bolin, was a lawyer and the first black person to graduate from Williams College, [2] and her mother, Matilda Ingram Emery, [3] was an immigrant from the British Isles who died when Bolin was 8 years old.