Timeline of women lawyers

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This is a timeline of women lawyers.

• 1869 - Arabella Mansfield became the first female lawyer in the United States when she was admitted to the Iowa bar.
• 1870 - Ada Kepley became the first woman to graduate from law school in the United States; she graduated from Chicago University Law School, predecessor to Union College of Law, later known as Northwestern University School of Law.
• 1872 - Charlotte E. Ray became the first African-American female lawyer in the United States.
• 1873 - Johanna von Evreinov became the first woman to obtain a JD in Germany on 21 February 1873, after having been admitted as a guest student at Leipzig University.
• 1879 - Belva Lockwood became the first woman to argue before the United States Supreme Court.
• 1897 - Ethel Benjamin became the first female lawyer in New Zealand.
• 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.
• 1911 - Clotilde Luisi became the first female lawyer in Uruguay.
• 1913 - Natividad Almeda-Lopez became the first female lawyer in the Philippines.
• 1918 - Judge Mary Belle Grossman and Mary Florence Lathrop became the first two female lawyers admitted to the American Bar Association.
• 1918 - Eva Andén became the first female lawyer admitted to the Swedish Bar Association.
• 1920 - Ella Negruzzi became the first female lawyer in Romania Romanian Bar Association
• 1922 - Ivy Williams was the first woman to be called to the English bar.
• 1922 - Helena Normanton became the first female barrister to practice in England.
• 1922 - Florence E. Allen became the first woman ever elected to a state supreme court (specifically, the Ohio Supreme Court).
• 1922 - Florence King became the first woman to argue a patent case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1922 - Auvergne Doherty became the first woman from Western Australia to be admitted to the English Bar
• 1923 - Florence King became the first woman to win a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1923 (Crown v. Nye).
• 1928 - Genevieve Cline won U.S. Senate confirmation on May 25, 1928 as a judge of the United States Customs Court (now known as the Court of International Trade), received her commission on May 26, 1928, and took her oath of office in the Cleveland Federal Building on June 5, 1928, thus becoming the first American woman ever appointed to the federal bench.
• 1937 - Anna Chandy of Travancore (later Kerala), British India becomes the first woman judge in the entire Anglo-Saxon world.
• 1943 - Frances Wright was called to the bar, becoming the first female lawyer in Sierra Leone.
• 1965 - Lorna E. Lockwood became the first woman chief justice of any state (specifically, she was chief justice of Arizona).
• 1970 - Doris Brin Walker became the first female president of the (American) National Lawyers Guild.
• 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman to serve as a justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• 1981 - Arnette Hubbard became the first female president of the (American) National Bar Association.
• 1988 - Juanita Kidd Stout was appointed to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, thus becoming the first African-American woman to serve on a state's highest court.
• 1995 - Roberta Cooper Ramo became the first female president of the American Bar Association.
• 2008 - Roberta Cooper Ramo became the first female president of the American Law Institute.

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See also

• First women lawyers in the United States
• First women lawyers around the world
• Timeline of women lawyers in the United States
• Women in law

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