America’s first woman admitted to the bar was
- America’s first woman admitted to the bar was
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Arabella Mansfield of Iowa on June 15, 1869, when the admitting judge ruled that the word "men" in the state law meant men and/or women. Mrs. Mansfield never actively practiced but served as a professor at Iowa Wesleyan and later DePauw.
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary.
Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill.
2009.
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