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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)
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]
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]
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.
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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 ...