FIRST WOMEN ATTORNEYS IN THE WORLD

If we talk about the first women lawyers in the world, we will limit ourselves to less than 10 women until the first 10 years of the 20th century; and it is more, it can be cited; But of course, citing those women who marked legal history is the focus of this research commentary:

By Francisco Aveiro.

1) Arabella Mansfield: became the first female lawyer in the United States when she was admitted to the Iowa bar, in 1869.

2) Ada Harriet Miser Kepley: became the first woman to graduate from law school in the United States; she graduated from Chicago University Law School, predecessor to Union College of Law, later known as Northwestern University School of Law, in 1870

3) Charlotte E. Ray: became the first African-American female lawyer in the United States, in 1872

4) Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Pioneer of education, anti-slavery militant, lawyer, leader of the movement for emigration to Canada and recruiter of black soldiers during the Civil War. Mary Ann Shadd made a great contribution to the causes of abolitionism and women's suffrage. (October 9, 1823 - June 5, 1893).

5) Sarmiza Bilcescu: She is the first woman in Europe to have a law degree from the University of Paris and the first in the world to obtain a doctorate in Law. He obtained his doctorate in Law with a doctoral thesis entitled "On the legal status of the mother", which showed all the contradictions and lack of rights of women and, especially, of mothers. The presented, with 23 years, on June 12, 1890 to the Faculty of Law of Paris.

6) Cornelia Sorabji: She was the first woman in India to graduate from college and thanks to her family contacts she became the first woman to obtain a law degree from the University of Oxford in 1892. When she returned to India, the impossibility of practicing the profession, got that in 1904 he created the position of legal adviser to the British Government to help the "purdahnashins", women who, according to Hindu law, lived in seclusion, married them when they were girls and they could no longer see the outside world or have contact with any other man other than her husband.

7) Ethel Benjamin: became the first female lawyer in New Zealand, in 1897

8) Flos Matilda Greig: became the first female barrister in Australia, in 1905

9) Serafina Dávalos: In 1907, she graduated as an attorney, being the first woman to graduate in Law in Paraguay and South America. In 1907, she obtained the degree of Doctor of Law at the age of 24 years with the presentation of her thesis "HUMANISM", which was a criticism of the cultural, educational, political and legal system of Paraguay. In 1908 he held the position of Member of the Superior Court of Justice, the highest ranking body of a Judicial Power in America. She was the first woman in the Americas to conquer the aforementioned judicial office on this list.

10) María Angélica Barreda: was the first lawyer of the Argentine Republic. Barreda graduated from the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the National University of La Plata in 1909 and was sworn in May of the following year.

11) Clotilde Luisi Janicki: She was the first Uruguayan woman who studied at the Law School of the Uruguayan University, entering in 1906 and obtaining the title of lawyer in 1911. Once graduated, she was assigned a position in the Chair of Roman Law and History of law on July 25, 1912, being the first woman who formed the faculty of that Faculty.

12) Spain: Maria Ascensión Chirivella was the first Spanish lawyer, and her income was accepted at the school in Valencia, in 1922, when women were not admitted to the organizations of lawyers from other countries such as Belgium, France or Italy. María Ascensión Chirivella is the first Spanish lawyer in official form