“It is better to wear out than to rust out.”
~ Mary Ann Shadd Cary
#1stWoman student at Howard University
#WomenInLaw
Shadd Cary taught and attended classes at Howard University School of Law, where she was Howard’s first Black female law student and one of the first Black women to earn a law degree. Shadd Cary then joined the women’s suffrage movement.
“I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.”
~ Nancy Pelosi
member of congress
2002: Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Reps
2007: #1stWoman Speaker of the U.S. House of Reps
Advocated for GenderEquity, #MarriageEquality, #CivilRights, & #Healthcare reform
“I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.”
~Sandra Day O'Connor
associate justice, lawyer, state senator
1973: #1stWoman to serve as a state's Majority Leader, when she became the Majority Leader in the AZ State Senate
1981: #1stWoman nominated & #1stWoman confirmed as an Associate Justice of SCOTUS
How are Gideon's Day and Clara Shortridge Foltz connected?
OTD 1963, SCOTUS "issued the decision in Gideon v. Wainwright making sure citizens didn’t have to stand alone against the State when facing a criminal charge." ~Jason Howell
https://amarillo.com/story/news/2023/03/18/gideons-day-60th-anniversary-celebration-is-march-18-2023/70020299007/ via
@amarilloglobe
Clara Foltz
1878: #1stWoman lawyer in CA
1893: presented the concept of the public defender program @ the Chicago World's Fair & drafted the model statute, codified in CA in 1921
#WHM2023 #WomenInLaw
1869 #1stWoman Admitted Lawyer:
Arabella Mansfield
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2023 All Women General Counsels at Chicago's major museums:
Lori Breslauer: Field Museum
Catherine Casey: Shedd Aquarium
Pam Chen: Museum of Science & Industry Chicago
Leslie Darling: The Art Institute of Chicago
#WHM #WomenInLaw
https://www.manglonalab.org/usfirsts
"I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both."
~Patricia Scott Schroeder
lawyer, member of congress
-1973: #1stWoman elected to
Congress from CO & #1stWoman on House Armed Serv. Comm.
-1977: founding member of Congress'l Women's Caucus
#WHM #WomenInLaw #Equity
https://www.manglonalab.org/legalherstorypioneers
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