Rich County Reaper | 1937-03-19 | Page 5 | First Woman Lawyer

first woman lawyer belva anna bennett was a widow with child when she began the work that was to make her famous she managed to obtain a law course in a day when admission for women to law schools was bitterly opposed and became a notable attorney she drafted and succeeded in getting through congress a bill admitting women to practice before the supreme court and was the first admitted to the bar of that court she was the wife of ezekiel lockwood a baptist clergyman when she twice became the nominee in 1884 and 1888 for the presidency of the united states of the equal rights party