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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.
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 Cobb and Mary C. Johnson were admitted the same year ...
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)
Mary Campbell Johnson was one of the first three females to practice law in Georgia. [1] Johnson was born around 1880 in New York. [2] She was married to Minton Rollingsworth Johnson, who worked as a customs collector at the port of Brunswick. They both studied law together and Johnson's husband was admitted to practice law in 1915.
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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 obtaining a law degree. The list is divided by continent: List of first women lawyers and judges in Africa; List of first women lawyers and judges in Asia