Talk:Timeline of women lawyers

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There is a lot that could be added to this. Is meant to cover the whole world? (women lawyers in China, India, Japan, Russia, Egypt, Australia, etc...?) Does it include women as trial advocates, judges, legal academics? Presumably not in the police services, or in legislatures? How about offices such as attorney general? A simple chronological list might start to become unwieldy before long. Would it be worth breaking it down, by role, or jurisdiction?

Some possible items to add, mainly from the UK and the Commonwealth:


 * 1897 - Clara Brett Martin, first woman called to the bar in Canada.
 * 1897 - Ethel Benjamin, first woman to become a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand
 * 1897 - Cornelia Sorabji, first woman to take the Bachelor of Civil Laws exam at the University of Oxford (although not awarded a degree or permitted to graduate)
 * 1920 - Madge Easton Anderson, first woman solicitor admitted to practice in Scotland
 * 1923 - Cornelia Sorabji, first woman advocate in India, when admitted to Allahabad High Court
 * November 1921 - Frances Kyle and Averill Deverell, first women called to the Irish Bar
 * 10 May 1922 - Ivy Williams, first woman to be called to the English Bar
 * November 1922 - Helena Normanton, first woman to practise as a barrister in England
 * 18 December 1922 - Carrie Morrison, the first woman solicitor admitted to practice in England.
 * 1923 - Ivy Williams, first woman to be awarded the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws at the University of Oxford
 * 1934 - Helen Kinnear, the first woman appointed King's Counsel, in Canada and the Empire
 * 1944 - Frances Moran, first woman Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College, Dublin
 * 1945 - Sybil Campbell, first woman to be appointed as a stipendiary magistrate in Britain; the first woman to be a professional magistrate or judge in Britain (and the only full-time woman magistrate or judge in England until her retirement in 1961)
 * 1949 - Helena Normanton and Rose Heilbron, first women to be appointed as King's Counsel in the United Kingdom
 * 1962 - Elizabeth Lane, first woman to be appointed as a County Court judge
 * 1965 - Elizabeth Lane, first woman to be appointed as a High Court judge in England (assigned to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division)
 * 1970 - Claire Palley, first woman professor of law in the UK, at Queen's University Belfast (and from 1971 first woman dean of a law school in the UK)
 * 4 January 1972 - Rose Heilbron, the first woman judge to sit at the Old Bailey
 * 1988 - Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, first woman appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in England (judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales)
 * 1988 - Brenda Hale, first woman (and youngest person ever) appointed to the Law Commission of England and Wales
 * 1988 - Heather Hallett, first woman to chair the Bar Council in England
 * 1992 - Ann Ebsworth, first woman High Court judge in England to be assigned to the Queen's Bench Division
 * 1992 - Barbara Mills, first woman Director of Public Prosecutions
 * 1993 - Mary Arden, first woman High Court judge in England to be assigned to the Chancery Division
 * 1996 - Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove, first woman to be appointed as a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland
 * 1999 - Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, first woman President of the Family Division
 * 2000 - Dianna Kempe, from Bermuda, first woman president of the International Bar Association.
 * 2001 - Harriet Harman, first woman Solicitor General for England and Wales
 * 2001 - Elish Angiolini, first woman to be Solicitor General for Scotland
 * 2004 - Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, first woman law lord (and from 2009 first woman justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)
 * 2006 - Elish Angiolini, first woman to be Lord Advocate of Scotland
 * 2007 - Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, first woman Attorney General for England and Wales (and, until 2010, ex officio, Attorney General for Northern Ireland)
 * 2007 - Agnes Devanadera, first woman Solicitor General of the Philippines
 * 2007 - Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove, first woman to be appointed the the Inner House of the Scottish Court of Session
 * 2011 - Heather Hallett, first woman Vice-President of the Queen's Bench Division
 * 2011 - Eva Wansundera, frist woman Solicitor General of Sri Lanka, then first woman Attorney General of Sri Lanka

(Still only no woman has served as Lord Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice, Master of the Rolls, Chancellor of the High Court (or Vice-Chancellor), Lord President of the Court of Session or Lord Justice General, or Lord Justice Clerk)

For the US, this is interesting: http://wlh.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/cunnea-timeline.pdf


 * 1870 - Esther Hobart Morris, first first woman judge in the US, when appointed justice of the peace in a mining town in Wyoming
 * 1897 - Lutie Lytle, first woman law professor in the US
 * 1934 - Florence Ellinwood Allen, first woman on the US federal appellate bench, on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
 * 1949 - Burnita Shelton Matthews, first woman appointed to serve on a U.S. district court
 * 1989 - Judith Areen, first woman dean at the Georgetown University Law Center
 * 1993 - Janet Reno, first woman U.S. Attorney General

Now no doubt you want some sources for the rest of it :) Ferma (talk) 18:41, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Could also be expanded with the help of List of first women lawyers and judges in Europe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NikePF (talk • contribs) 20:43, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

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Lidia Poet 1920 advocacy

But became lawyer in 1882, but her nomination was rejected in 1883 84.222.11.50 (talk) 20:00, 8 July 2023 (UTC)