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Eva L. Sloan: [55] First female lawyer in Milledgeville, Georgia [Baldwin County, Georgia] Alene Hardin (c. 1918): [56] First female lawyer in Macon, Georgia [Bibb County, Georgia] Faye Sanders Martin (1956): [57] First woman to practice law in Bulloch County, Georgia. She would later become the first female Ogeechee Judicial Circuit judge. [58]
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)
Minnie Anderson Hale (later Minnie Hale Daniel) was one of the first three female lawyers in Georgia. [1] On June 9, 1911, she became the first female to graduate from the Atlanta Law School—as well as the first female to graduate from a law school in the state. Nevertheless, she was denied the right to practice law.
First woman in Georgia to earn a doctor of medicine degree [99] Viola Ross Napier (1881–1962) 1993 First woman member Georgia House of Representatives, first woman lawyer to argue before Georgia Supreme Court [100] Gertrude Pridgett "Ma" Rainey (1886–1939) 1993 Blues singer [101] Martha McChesney Berry (1866–1942) 1992 Founder of Berry ...
A demonstrator holds a sign while gathering on the National Mall during the Women's March in Washington D.C., U.S., on Jan. 21, 2017. Credit - Eric Thayer–Bloomberg—Getty Images
Betty Reynolds Cobb (October 23, 1884 – May 27, 1956) was an attorney, author, and activist. She was one of the first women accepted to the bar, and one of the first female lawyers in Georgia. In 1916, Minnie Anderson Hale, Cobb, and Mary C. Johnson were respectively admitted in the state of Georgia to practice law.
The first women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls in 1848 where a declaration was drafted and signed. It called for the right to vote, equal education rights and treatment under the law.
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