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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 ...
Lawyers from Baton Rouge, Louisiana (28 P) C. Louisiana city attorneys (7 P) D. ... List of first women lawyers and judges in Louisiana; A. Neil Abramson (politician)
Catherine D. Kimball (1970): [17] First female elected as a Judge of the Eighteenth Judicial District Court (1983) [Iberville, Pointe Coupee, and West Baton Rouge Parishes, Louisiana] Patricia Hedges: [ 26 ] First female appointed as a Judge of the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court in Louisiana (1995) [ St. Tammany and Washington Parishes ...
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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)
Two years later, at the 2019 National Senior Games, Hawkins won gold medals in both the 50-meter dash and the 100-meter dash in the women's 100-plus division. 103-year-old nicknamed the 'Hurricane ...