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Rebecca Pearl Lovenstein nee Greenburg (May 25, 1888 - February 10, 1971) was the first woman admitted to the bar in the state of Virginia.

Early life
Lovenstein was born in Vilna, Russia on May 25, 1888 to Moses S. Greenburg and Deborah Greenburg. She was one of six children. In the 1890's, the Greenburg family came to the United States, where Lovenstein would attend Duke University for two years until her mother became ill. In 1907 she met Benjamin Lovenstein, a type-writer salesman who was studying law in Charlottesville, Virginia. The two married on July 25 of that same year, they later had three children.