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Myra Bradwell: America's first woman lawyer

Myra Bradwell: America's first woman lawyer. B orn on February 12, 1831, in Manchester, Vermont. Most widely circulated legal newspaper in the United States for at least two decades. P ublisher, business manager, and editor-in-chief Practicing without a license by

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Myra Bradwell: America's first woman lawyer

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  1. Myra Bradwell: America's first woman lawyer Born on February 12, 1831, in Manchester, Vermont

  2. Most widely circulated legal newspaper in the United States for at least two decades. • Publisher, business manager, and editor-in-chief • Practicing without a license by writing about social law and making editorial pleas • In her paper, she published a three volume entitled “History of Woman Suffrage” http://causes.goldenmoon.org/legends/mbradwell.html Founder of Chicago Legal News 1868

  3. “Bradwellassisted in securing the passage of the 1869 bill that gave married women the right to retain their own wages and protect the rights of widows.” “Bradwelland her husband participated in the organization of Chicago’s first woman suffrage convention and the founding of Cleveland’s American Woman Suffrage Association.” http://momo.essortment.com/myrabradwell_rfxv.htm Women’s Rights Advocate

  4. 1869 after reading law with her husband, passed test for admission to the Chicago Bar Denied because she was married Women available to husbands at all times Since she would be held responsible for her actions, she might be arrested; therefore she would not be available to her husband. http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1998/ihy980445.html U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Illinois Supreme Court Admission to the Bar Denied

  5. Associate Justice Joseph P. Bradley: "The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many occupations of civil life....The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign office of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator." In 1885 the decision was overturned Women don’t belong in law

  6. 1872 Illinois law changed "No person shall be precluded or debarred from any occupation, profession, or employment (except military) on account of sex.” http://library.law.columbia.edu/rise_of_women/practice/myra_bradwell.html 1873, Alta M. Hulett was admitted to the Illinois bar. Bradwell was not admitted because she would have to reapply. Bradwell and Hulett drafted the bill that changed the law http://library.law.columbia.edu/rise_of_women/practice/myra_bradwell.html

  7. U.S. Supreme Court, on its own motion, granted her license two years later Both courts granted her license munc pro tunc ("now for then") Her official documents were dated 1869, the original year Bradwell applied. She was then, indeed, the first woman lawyer in Illinois. http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1998/ihy980445.html Granted License in 1890 by Illinois

  8. Grade school Awarded license in 1890 Rosehill Cemetery buried in 1894 The First Woman Lawyer in Illinois First practicing without a license because she was denied for being a woman Founder of Chicago Legal News Awarded a license in 1890 that was back-dated to her initial application in 1869 By back-dating her license, the court made Myra Bradwell the first woman lawyer in Illinois

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