Jennie Mitchell Kellogg

Mary "Jennie" Virginia Mitchell Kellogg (March 4, 1850 – May 9, 1911) was Kansas' first female lawyer.[1][2][3]

She was born on March 4, 1850 in Coshocton, Ohio to Daniel Patrick Mitchell and Anna Eliza Baker Mitchell.[1][4] Kellogg's first husband was Benton Arthur, who died of tuberculosis. Her second husband was Lyman B. Kellogg, whom she married in 1878.[1] She received her legal tutelage from her second husband and became the first female authorized to practice law in Kansas. She was admitted to the Lyon County Bar Association in 1880 and joined her husband's law practice in Emporia, Kansas. The following year, Kellogg was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Kansas.[5][6] Kellogg began working as the Assistant Attorney General of Kansas in 1888 when her husband was elected as the Attorney General.[1][7] She raised a blended family with her husband and their two sons also became attorneys. Kellogg died on May 9, 1911.[4][8]

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References
  1. "Lyman B. Kellogg ESU001.001". www.emporia.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  2. Reeves, Winona Evans (1916). The Blue Book of Nebraska Women: A History Pf Contemporary Women. Missouri Printing and Publishing Company.
  3. Dayton, Kim (1995). ""Trespassers, Beware!": Lyda Burton Conley and the Battle for Huron Place Cemetery". Yale Journal of Law & Feminism.
  4. "Plaza of Heroines at Wichita State University". www.plazaofheroines.com. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  5. Kansas History. Kansas State Historical Society. 1998.
  6. Kellogg, Lyman Beecher (2006). Recollections: the memoirs of Lyman Beecher Kellogg. Emporia State Press. ISBN 9780978716004.
  7. Elrod, Linda Diane Henry (2004). "Washburn Law School Celebrates a Century of Welcoming Women" (PDF). Washburn Law Journal.
  8. Journeys on the Road Less Traveled, 1998


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