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6 Women's Bar Association Newsletter 1 (1968)

handle is hein.peggy/wbanewsl0010 and id is 1 raw text is: WOMEN'S BAR ASSO(WMION THE DITRI1CT1 OF CO) M3IANES V EW GI&DYS , Editor; Telephone: 522-5634 Vol. VI, No. 2 Februty THE FIRST WOMAN . . . Submitted by JOYCE CAPPS T FIRET WOMI LA 1-tR GRADUATED FROM A lAW SCHOOL was AD .1. KE Y of Effingham, Illinois, who was graduated fron the Union College of Law, Chicago, or June 30, 18170. THFIRST WOMAN 1 BECOME A EMBER OF THE AMERICAN BA APSOCI TON was MARY F ENCE -F LATHROP, who was admitted in 1917. She received her LL.B. degree from the University of' Denver, in Colorado. I1E FIRST WOMAIN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF A LAW REVIEW was. fl/BY 110NOR DONON, who edited the November 1919, January 1920, and March 1920 issues of the Conlnei Law of the Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York. JOYCE CAPPS T-E FIRST WOMAN ADMITTED TO PRA'CTICE BEFORE T} SU W iCOU 0 T E UNIFD STATES was 1 A , 1, ELLNETT LOCKWOOD, who was adxmitted on l ~s.reh 3, 1879. e bill adittin women passed the House of Representatives February 21, 1878, ard the Senate February 7, 18(9. It was titled an act to relieve certain ea disabilities of women. ('0 Stat.aL.92) and was signed ebr r .5, 189, esdet Rtrherford Birchard Hayes. t provided that y -o - mem cr - the bar of good oral character who had pracfied for ye ' before a state surene court was eligible for ad ittace to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. 11 . 04OO was also the first woman admitted to practice in our sister sae f inia. FIRST WO1,04N DTIICT ATTORNEY OF T E UNITED STATES was ANNETTE ABBOT DAP,' served in Norh ern District of California from July 25, 1918 to June U2 RS WO CT OF' A STATE SUhFI COUE as OR/ CE F. KAERC[R of Ortonville, nnesota elected Noveb e 192. In fact, she was the first w a evern elected to a state office in Minnesota. She was reelected for fr-year term i , 1930, 1938, and 194. Digitized from Best Copy Available