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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]
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.
Nevertheless, she was denied the right to practice law. In 1916 "An Act to Permit Females to Practice Law", otherwise known as the "Portia Bill", was signed by Governor Nathaniel Edwin Harris, and Hale was finally admitted to practice law in the state of Georgia. [2] She became the first of the three female lawyers in Georgia, as Betty Reynolds ...
Leah Ward Sears (née Leah Jeanette Sears; [1] born June 13, 1955) is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.Sears was the first African-American female chief justice of a state supreme court in the United States. [2]
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in North America (a separate list is devoted to the United States). It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are the first women in their country to achieve a certain distinction such as graduating from law school. KEY
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)
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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]