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This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Virginia.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
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)
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 ...
Mary Hayes Allen, 1906–1908, Virginia Theological Seminary and College (now Virginia University of Lynchburg) Emma Elizabeth Johnson, 1925–1927, Johnson University (Kimberlin Heights, TN) [1] Mary Elizabeth Branch, 1930–1944, Huston–Tillotson University (Austin, TX) [2]
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]
Elizabeth Bermingham Lacy (born January 12, 1945) is a Virginia jurist. She was the first woman named to the Virginia State Corporation Commission and later was the first woman named to be a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, where she served until her retirement in 2007.
Gerty Archimede (1939): [135] [136] [137] First female lawyer in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin) Annie Magnan: [272] First female lawyer in Saint Martin. She was also the first female to serve as President of the Saint Martin Bar Association.
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 ...