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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)
Pages in category "History of women in Virginia" ... List of first women lawyers and judges in Virginia; ... Sullins College; T.
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]
Republican Winsome Sears, who returned to Virginia politics after an absence of nearly two decades, has become the first female lieutenant governor and the first woman of color to win statewide ...
Gerty Archimede (1939): [137] [138] [139] First female lawyer in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin) Annie Magnan: [274] First female lawyer in Saint Martin. She was also the first female to serve as President of the Saint Martin Bar Association.
Professor of history at Arizona State University, Robert Sitkoff: 1996 Graduate Professor at Harvard Law School: Valerie Smith: 1978, 1982 Graduate President, Swarthmore College; former dean of the college, Princeton University [7] William G. Thomas III: 1991, 1995 M.A., Ph.D History professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2016 ...