Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Kate Stoneman (1886): [1] First female lawyer in New York; Rosalie Loew Whitney (1895): [2] [3] [4] First Jewish American female lawyer in New York; Helen Z.M. Rodgers (1899): [5] [6] First female lawyer to try a case before the New York State Court of Appeals; Georgia Hare (c. 1910): [7] First female lawyer registered with the New York State ...
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)
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 ...
1899 – The National Association of Women Lawyers, originally called the Women Lawyers' Club, was founded by a group of 18 women lawyers in New York City. [3] 1918 – Judge Mary Belle Grossman and Mary Florence Lathrop became the first two female lawyers admitted to the American Bar Association. [3]
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]
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.
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.
Judith Ann Kaye (née Smith; August 4, 1938 – January 7, 2016) was an American lawyer, jurist and the longtime Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, serving in that position from 1993 to 2008.