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I. Historiographical Articles II. Periodicals: Law Journals, State Bar Publications, and Miscellaneous III. Women Practitioners, General Interest IV. Other Materials V. Bibliography
HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ARTICLES The First Women Lawyers: A Comparative Study Of Gender, Law And The Legal Professions by Mary Jane Mossman. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2006. Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President by Jill Norgren ; foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. New York : New York University Press, 2007 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). NAWL’S Southern California Council by Selma Moidel Smith 87 Women Lawyers Journal 1 (Fall 2001) 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) [PDF \| HTML] "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 Smal
PERIODICALS, LAW JOURNALS, STATE BARS, AND OTHER A. Newspaper, Periodicals 1. The Law Student's Helper "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 "Can Women Practise Law?" The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 6, p. 138, June 1893 "Our Series of Women Lawyers [Letter]" The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 10, p.283, October, 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 2. Woman Lawyers' Journal "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 3. 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 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 B. Law Journals 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) 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) C. State Bar Celebrations Six of the Greatest: Irena Ingham McGarry 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 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 1880-1905: A foundation for integrity Ohio Lawyer, January/February 2005 First 50 Women Lawyers in Idaho by Debora K. Kristensen Presented by Idaho State Bar, 2005 D. Other 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
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
OTHER MATERIALS Roll of Attorneys, Territory of Arizona, early 1900's Finding the Fertile Fact: Women’s Legal History Research Pathfinder
Bibliography This is a bibliography of books and articles dealing with women's legal history. Several of the books contain chapters on women who are also the focus of original biographies contained within this Website; in these instances there are links to our content. Compiled by J. Paul Lomio
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