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II. Periodicals: Law Journals, State Bar Publications, and Miscellaneous
III. Women Practitioners,
General Interest
A New Discovery: The
First Women Members of the ABA [Mary Belle Grossman and Mary Florence
Lathrop]
by Selma Moidel Smith
9 Experience 4 (Summer 1999)
*Also 85 Women Lawyers Journal 3 (Fall/Winter 2000)
A Century of
Achievement: The Centennial of the National Association of Women Lawyers
by Selma Moidel Smith
85 Women Lawyers Journal 2 (Summer 1999)
*Originally printed as two articles: "...The First 50 Years," 9
Experience 1 (Fall 1998), and "...The Second 50 Years," 9 Experience 2
(Winter 1999).
Book Review:
Feminist Lawyers
by Barbara Allen Babcock
50 Stanford Law Review 1689 (1998)
Women Lawyers in
the United States
by Lelia J. Robinson, LL.B.
2 GreenBag 10 (1890)
Making History: Lelia Robinson's Index to
American Women Lawyers ["Introduction to Women Lawyers in the United
States"]
by Profesor Barbara Allen Babcock
Stanford Law School (July 1998)
All the
Allies of Each: Lelia Robinson's Portrait of Early Women Lawyers in America
by Julia Steele
"Admission
of Women to the Bar"
Edited by Catharine V. Waite
Chicago Legal Times, 1887
Women in
the Law: Their Past, Present, and Future
by Edith Prouty, Attorney-at-Law, Humboldt
Woman's Journal (Boston), April 22, 1876
Curriculum Vitae
(Feminae): Biography and Early American Women Lawyers
by Carol Sanger
46 Stanford Law Review 1245
First Women Lawyers
in the United States
by Carolyn Sleeth
A Timeline of Women's
Legal History in the United States
by Professor Cunnea and Lisa Small
A Timeline of Women's
Legal History in the United States and at Georgetown University
by Lisa Small
15 Years of
Advocacy: Women and the Law Time Line 1619-1998
by Lisa Small
II. PERIODICALS, LAW
JOURNALS, STATE BARS, AND OTHER
A. Newspaper, Periodicals
1. Chicago Legal News
"Mrs. Sallie
J. S. White" (Regarding Graduation of Sallie J. S. White from
Law School)
Chicago Legal News, May 21, 1904, page 327
"A Woman
An Assistant Attorney-General Of The Philippines" (Floy
Gilmore appointed Assistant Attorney-General of the Philippine Islands)
Chicago Legal News, May 16, 1903, p. 325, col. 3
"Won Her
Own Promotion: Young Woman Has Been Appointed To Office In The
Philippines" (Floy Gilmore appointed Assistant Attorney-General
of the Phillipine Islands)
Chicago Legal News, July 18, 1903, p. 401, col. 4
"Mrs. Terra
Del Whipple, LL.B" (Short Biography of Terra Del Whipple)
Chicago Legal News, June 4, 1898
"Woman at the
Bar: Miss M. Stanleyetta Titus of New York is Becoming Famous
Chicago Legal News, August 21, 1897, page 351
"First Woman
Student At Yale" (Announcement that Alice J. Jordan has
entered the senior class at Yale Law School)
Chicago Legal News, Sept. 1885-1886, p. 59
"Miss
Mary Margaret Bartelme" (Appointed Public Guardian of
Cook County, Illinois)
Chicago Legal News, Exact Cite Unknown
2. The Law Student's Helper
"America's
Only Woman Judge [Mary M. Bartelme]"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. XXI, No. 7, p. 7, July 1913
"Women
Jurors to Try Feminine Murderers"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. XX, No. 11, p. 328, November 1912
" The Female
Advocate (poem) "
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 9, No. 2, p.59, 1901
"Women at the
Bar [Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York City]"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 5, No. 3, p. 105, March 1897
"New Law as
to Admission to the Bar in Alabama"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 5, No. 5, p.185, May, 1897
"Can Women
Practise Law? [State by State Information]"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, p. 102, 1893
"Ella W.
Brown"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, p. 103, 1893
"Kate Kane"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, p.104, 1893
"Myra
Bradwell"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, p.104, 1893
"A Plucky
Indiana Woman: Antoinette D. Leach (Sullivan, Ind.)"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 6, p. 134, June 1893
"Can Women
Practise Law?"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 6, p. 138, June 1893
"Mrs.
Josephine Moody Luthe"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 6, p. 138, June 1893
"Women at
the Bar [portraits of Josephine Luthe, Belva Lockwood, Dora Sandoe, and Nettie
Lutes]"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 6, p. 138-141, June 1893
"Belva A.
Lockwood"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 6, p. 139, June 1893
"Dora O.
Sandoe" The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 6, p. 140, June 1893
"Mrs. Nettie
Cronise Lutes"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 6, p. 140, June 1893
"The Pier Family of
Milwaukee"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, p. 174, 1893
"Was Mrs. Belva
A. Lockwood Admitted to Practice Law in the State of Virginia?"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, p. 200, 1893
"Mary Kennedy
Brown"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, p. 202, 1893
"Alice
Parker"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 9, p. 241, September, 1893
"Clara
Foltz, San Francisco, Cal."
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 10, p. 263, Oct. 1893
"Mary L.
M'Gindley"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 10, p. 263, October, 1893
"Our
Series of Women Lawyers [Letter]"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 10, p.283, October, 1893
"Ada M.
Bittenbender, Lincoln, Nebraska"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, p.303, 1893
"Marilla M.
Ricker, Washington, D.C."
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, p. 304, 1893
"Mary Lynde
Craig: Address Given by Mary Lynde Craig, Read Before the Woman's Parliament of
Southern California, 10/11/1893"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 12, p.345, 1893
"Rights
of Married Women in Louisiana"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 12, p. 355, December 1893
"Fannie
O'Linn: Admitted in the Supreme Court of the United States"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, p. 369, 1893
"Fannie
O'Linn"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, 1893
"Henrietta
Pettijohn"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, 1893
"Ida Kast of
Mechanicsburg"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, 1893
"Jessie
E. Hutchison"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, 1893
"Kate Kane"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 8, August 1893
"Mary Hall,
Hartford, Conn."
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, 1893
"Mary
Lynde Craig"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, 1893
3. Woman's Journal
"Women
Attorneys" (Miss Cora B. Hirtzel and Miss Nellie Carlin, of
Chicago, have formed apartnership for the practice of law)
Woman's Journal (Boston), January 27, 1900
"Women
Lawyers" (Regarding Admission of Elizabeth M. Taylor)
Woman's Journal (Boston), January 20, 1900, page 24.
"Attorneys
At Law" (Regarding: 1) Admission of Kate P. Pier and Her
Daughter Harriet H. Pier To Practice Before the U.S. Supreme Court, 2) Mrs. J.
Ellen Foster's Appearance Before the Congressional Committee In Opposition To
the Seating of Brigham H. Roberts, and 3) Mlle. Jeanne Chauvan Admission To
Practice Law in France)
Woman's Journal (Boston), February 17, 1900, C-2
"Women
Lawyers" (Regarding Admission of "Miss Frank Gray
Shafer")
Woman's Journal (Boston), March 17, 1900
"Women
Attorneys" (Gail Laughlin appointed to investigate the house
servant problem)
Woman's Journal (Boston), June 30, 190[0?], p. 208
"Women
Attorneys" (Regarding Admission of Marie W. Hanus)
Woman's Journal (Boston), February 5, 1898
"Women As
Lawyers" (Regarding: 1) Eulalie Parker first woman to hold
office of notary public in Montgomery County, NY, 2) Resignation of Kae F.
O'Conner as Deputy County Clerk and Clerk of Probate Court, and 3) Miss
Gillette refused admission to the Worcester County Bar on the ground of her moral
character)
Woman's Journal (Boston), April 16, 1898, XXIX
"Another
Woman Pension Attorney" (Regarding Admission of Ellen S. Forbes
Tolman)
Woman's Journal (Boston), October 16, 1897
"Women
Attorneys-at-law" (Regarding Admission of Harriet L.
Kilbourn)
Woman's Journal (Boston), November 13, 1897
"Miss M.
Fredrika" (Regarding Miss Perry's Entering the Lecture Field)
Woman's Journal (Boston), December 8, 1877, page 385
"Lady
Lawyers in Supreme Court" (article regarding Lavinia
Goodell)
Woman's Journal (Boston), January 1, 1876; p. 4, col. 2
"Women
Lawyers" (Regarding Admission of Mrs. B.A. Mansfield)
Woman's Journal (Boston), April 22, 1876
"Another
Young Woman Lawyer" (Short biography of Elizabeth L. Kenney)
Woman's Journal (Boston), January, p. 6 [exact cite unknown]
"Women
Attorneys" (Regarding Admission of Elva Hulburd Young and
Margaret A. Richardson)
Woman's Journal, Exact Cite Unknown
"Women
Attorneys-at-law" (Regarding Admission of Mary Elizabeth
Corbett and Helen J. Wescott)
Woman's Journal, Exact Cite Unknown
4. Woman Lawyers' Journal
"Tribute to
Judge Georgia Bullock of the Superior Court, Los Angeles, California, and Judge
Ida May Adams of the Municipal Court, Los Angeles, California, by the Southern
California Council"
Women Lawyers' Journal, Vol. 19, August 1932
"Judge
Florence Allen" (Short Biography of Florence Allen) (in PDF
format)*
by Percilla Lawyer Randolph
Woman Lawyers' Journal, Vol. 19 (Winter), 1932
"Our New
President - Olive Stott Gabriel" (Announcement of the National
Association of Women Lawyers Selection of Olive Stott Gabriel as President)
Women Lawyers' Journal, January 1930, Vol. 18, No. 1, p. 2
"Women
Law Professors" (Regarding California's First Law Professors,
Barbara N. Grimes and Rosamund Parma)
Women Lawyers' Journal, vol. 18(1), Jan. 1930
"The Woman
Juror" (Article addresses the issue of whether women
should be allowed to be jurors)
by Burnita Shelton Matthews
Women Lawyer's Journal, April 1927, Vol. XV, No. 2
"Women
in the Legal Profession"
Women Lawyers' Journal, vol. 5(3), Dec. 1915
"News
Items" (1912 news regarding 1) Miss Mary Margaret Bartelme
and the Juvenile Court, 2) Pleas for Woman Judge in New York, 3) UCLA Law
School has large number of woman students, 4) Meeting of the Alumnae
Association of the Woman's Law Class of New York University, 5) Appearance of
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey before the U.S. Supreme Court, 6) Refusal of
Admission of Mrs. Georgie McIntire-Weaver before to the Georgia Bar, 7)
Awarding of Medal for Excellency in Scholarship to Miss Litta Belle Hibbens of
Southern California University Law School, 8) Clara Shortridge Foltz is now a
subscriber to the Woman Lawyer's Journal, 9) Speakers' Day at the Portia Club,
10) Emma L. Fall appointed to the faculty of the Portia Law School of Boston,
and 11) Miss M. W. Cottle to continue her legal studies at Washington College
of Law)
Women Lawyers' Journal, 1912, Exact Cite Unknown
"Women
Lawyers" (Regarding Admission of Miss Belle Ashton to
Practice Law In Maine)
Woman Lawyers' Journal, June 9, 1900. C.3
5. Law Alumni Periodicals
"Women In
The Law - Looking Back For Progress" (short article regarding
the early women alumni of
Boston University School of Law)
by Jennifer R. Wilder
Boston University School of Law Alumni Magazine, vol 5, p4 (Spring 1996)
(Permission to post this document granted by the Trustees of Boston
University)
"Women
Trailblazers: The Changing Role of Women In American Legal History"
The Amicus (Valparaiso University School of Law), Vol. 7, page 12 (Winter,
1994)
The Venturesome
Women of Stanford Law: 1920 - 1945
by Leelane Ellis Hines
21 Stanford Lawyer 4
6. Other Newpapers and Periodicals
"The
History of Cobb Hall and Mrs. Betty Renolds Cobb"
by Wes Walker
Atlanta Constitution, May 27, 1956
"Bar
Library Given Picture: Biography of State's 1st Woman Lawyer [Miss Etta H.
Maddox] Also Presented"
Sun (Baltimore), February 21, 1950
"Florence
E. Allen Named Federal Judge: First Woman To Get Place On Circuit Bench"
(Regarding Nomination of Florence E. Allen to the Sixth Circuit Court)
The New York Times, March 7, 1934
"Miss
[Florence] Allen Talks Of Women's Gains: First Woman Named a U.S. Circuit Judge
Things Suffrage Improves Politics"
The New York Times, March 25, 1934. IX, 2:6
Extracts from
book "Angels and Amazons: A Hundred Years of American Women" (short
extract regarding various early american women lawyers)
by Inez Haynes Irwin
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY. 1933
"[Florence
E. Allen] The First Woman To Sit On A Supreme Court Bench: Florence E. Allen is
the most famous woman judge in the world - The story of her unique career and
of her experiences with witnesses, lawyers, and juries, including women
jurors"
The American Magazine, p. 19, 198-202
"Justice
Is Truth In Action: Success Is Being Won By Many Women In The Administration Of
Law and Justice"
Business Woman, 1923
"Woman
Elected Judge" (Regarding election of Miss Florence E. Allen to the
Bench of the Common Pleas Court in Cuyahoga County, Ohio)
by Edith E. Moriarty
Woman Citizen, July, 1921
"A
Test Case" (Laura De Force Gordon's Opinion Regarding
Discrimination On Account Of Sex)
San Francisco Morning Call, February 19, 1880, p.l, c.7
"For
His Life: The Trial of Saldee in Judge Ferral's Court" (article
regarding prosecution of case by Laura De Force Gordon)
San Francisco Chronicle, August, 1880, p.4, c.1
"Wisconsin's
Female Lawyer" (article regarding Lavinia Goodell)
San Francisco Chronicle, March 23, 1879; p. 6, col. 4
A Real Revolution
by Barbara
Allen Babcock
The
University of Kansas Law Review, Volume 49, No. 4, p. 719 - 731 (May 2001)
Before It Was Merely
Difficult: Belva Lockwood's Life in Law and Politics
by Jill Norgren
23 Journal of Supreme Court History 1 (1999)
Lucile Lomen: The
First Woman to Clerk at the Supreme Court
by David J. Danelski
23 Journal of Supreme Court History 1 (1999)
The
First Women Members of the Supreme Court Bar, 1879 - 1900
by Mary L.
Clark
36 San
Diego Law Review 87(1999)
The Founding of the
Washington College of Law: The First Law School Established by Women for Women
by Mary L. Clark
This draft was edited and appears in 47 American University Law Review
613 (1998).
"Shoulder to
Shoulder: Litta Belle Hibben Campbell and the Women of the U.S.C. Law School
During the Early Years"
U.S.C. Law, Spring 1997
Trespassers,
Beware! Lyda Burton Conley and the Battle for Huron Place Cemetery
by Kim Dayton
8 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 1 (1996)
Women in the
Federal Judiciary: Three Way Pavers and the Exhilarating Change President
Carter Wrought
by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Laura W. Brill
64 Fordham Law Review 281 (1995)
"Pioneering
Women At Virginia" (Short article regarding various women
graduates of the University of Virginia Law School)
by Jennifer Gennari Shepherd
Virginia Law School Report, vol. 16, p. 43 (Winter 1992)
Six of the
Greatest: Irena Ingham McGarry (in PDF format)*
by Jeanne
M. Colman, Julia T. Thompson
The
Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 30, July 2001, p. 21 - 24
Celebrating
Vermont's First 100 Women Lawyers: 1902 - 1978 (in PDF
format)*
Vermont Bar
Association, 8 September 2000, p. 1 - 48.
Legal
Pioneers: Four of Illinois Women Lawyers
by Meg Gorecki
Illinois State Bar Association, October 1990
Breckinridge,
Sophonisba Preston
in the Kentucky Encyclopedia (1992)
Condescension
Toward Woman Lawyers
by Mary Erickson, Stanford, 1988
The Content of
Women's Legal Practice
by Mary Erickson, Stanford, 1988
Emphasis on
Women Lawyers' Femininity
by Mary Erickson, Stanford, 1988
Miscellany
by Mary Erickson, Stanford, 1988
Types of
Practice and Cases Pursued by Women Lawyers
by Mary Erickson, Stanford, 1988
Women
Lawyers "Legitimized" by Alluding to Their Male-Lawyer Connections
by Mary Erickson, Stanford, 1988
Women
Lawyers' Male-Connectedness
by Mary Erickson, Stanford, 1988
E. Source Unknown
Biography of Miss
James M. Perry, 1894-1964
Source Unknown
"Kenney,
Elizabeth L." (Short biography of Elizabeth L. Kenney)
Source Unknown
"Laughlin,
Miss Gail" (Short biography of Gail Laughlin)
Source Unknown
"A New
Portia In Vermont: Miss Ellen M. Hoar of Barr Admitted to the Vermont Bar"
Source Unknown
"Third
Woman Lawyer: Miss Lena Guidici of Barre Admitted to the Bar"
Source Unknown
"Women Bar
Members WIll Honor Pioneer: Miss Maddox First Woman to Practice Law in
State"
by Margaret Demsey
Source Unknown
III. WOMEN
PRACTITIONERS, GENERAL INTEREST
A Real Revolution
by Barbara
Allen Babcock
The
University of Kansas Law Review, Volume 49, No. 4, p. 719 - 731 (May 2001)
"Women's History Finds a Home on the
Web" (Article on the Women's Legal History Biography Project)
Cyber Esq., Winter 1999, p. 8 - 9.
[HTML]
[PDF]
" The Female
Advocate (poem) "
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 9, No. 2, p.59, 1901
"New Law as
to Admission to the Bar in Alabama"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 5, No. 5, p.185, May, 1897
"Our
Series of Women Lawyers [Letter]"
The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 10, p.283, October, 1893
"The Woman
Juror" (Article addresses the issue of whether women
should be allowed to be jurors)
by Burnita Shelton Matthews
Women Lawyer's Journal, April 1927, Vol. XV, No. 2
In
Memoriam: Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird (1936 - 1999) (in PDF format)*
22 Official California Reports 4th 1275 - 79 (2000).
"Ada Lewis Sawyer, 93, dies; First
Woman Lawyer in Rhode Island" (in PDF format)*
Journal Bulletin, May 14, 1985
"Sybil
Ward, First Woman In State Bar Unit, Dies"
Morning News (Wilmington, Delaware), April 1, 1977
Memorial Service
for the Honorable Annie Lola Price (in PDF format)*
49 Alabama
Appellate Courts Reports 5 (1972)
"Florence
E. Allen Dies: Retired Federal Jurist"
Washington Post, Sept 14, 1966
"Miss
Ellen Hoar Dies In Barre; Second Woman Lawyer In State"
Time Argus, Sept. 7, 1963
In Memoriam: Katharine C. Bleckley (in PDF Format)*
218 Georgia Reports XXXVII - XLVI (1962 - 63).
"Mrs.
Cobb, First Ga. Woman Admitted to Bar, Dies at 71"
Atlanta Journal, May 27, 1956, p. 10
"Emma
Melinda Gillett" (Obiturary of Emma Melinda Gillett)
Women Lawyers' Journal, April 1927, Vol. XV, No. 2
In the Matter
of the Admission of Beatrice Blumenauer
In the Matter of the Admission of Vivian H. Hopson
Before the Supreme Court of Washington, September 5, 1902
(This document, issued by the Supreme Court of Washington, certifies
Beatrice Blumenauer and Vivian H. Hopson to practice law in the State of
Washington)
Roll of
Attorneys, Territory of Arizona, early 1900's
The Opinion of the
Supreme Court in the Matter of the Petition of Mrs. Antoinette D. Leach for
Admission to Practice Law in the State of Indiana
appeared in The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, p. 180, 1893.
Application
of Miss Goodell
Wisconsin Supreme Court (1879), 48 Wisc. 693
In the
Matter of the Motion to Admit Miss Lavinia Goodell to the Bar of this State
Wisconsin Supreme Court (1875), 39 Wisc. 232
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