National Association of Women Lawyers

The National Association of Women Lawyers is a voluntary organization founded in 1899 and based in the United States. Its aim is to promote women lawyers and women's legal rights.[1]

History

The group was originally called the "Women Lawyers' Club", and was founded by 18 female lawyers in New York City in 1899.[2][3][4] The organization started publishing the Women Lawyers' Journal in 1911.[5] The group was renamed the "Women Lawyers Association" by 1914, and changed to its current name in 1923.[6]

Notable Members
  • Oda Faulconer, The Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles was born by the merging of two women's bar organizations: the Women Lawyers' Club, founded in 1918, and the Women Lawyers' Association of Southern California, founded in 1928. The president of the Women Lawyers' Association of Southern California was Mab Copeland Lineman, who was also the 4th President of the Women Lawyers' Club, while Faulconer was the secretary-treasurer. In 1930, when the Association reorganized into the Southern California Council of the National Association of Women Lawyers, Ida May Adams was president and Faulconer vice-president. Faulconer was elected president for two terms, in 1938 and 1939[7]
  • Kate Pier, vice-president for Wisconsin of the National Association of Women Lawyers.[8]
  • Lavinia Marian Fleming Poe, first African American woman lawyer in Virginia, passing the bar exam in 1925.[9]
  • F. Josephine Stevenson, served one year as president of the Women Lawyers' Club, and four years as corresponding secretary[7]
  • Ida V. Wells, director of the Women Lawyers' Association.[7]
  • Olive Stott Gabriel, president in the 1930s.[10]
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References
  1. About NAWL, nawl.org, Retrieved 20 February 2015
  2. NAWL History, nawl.org, Retrieved 20 February 2015
  3. Smith, Selma Moidel. A Century of Achievement: The Centennial of the National Association of Women Lawyers, Women Lawyers Journal (85:2, Summer 1999) (reprinted from ABA Senior Lawyers Division Experience Magazine, Fall 1998 & Winter 1999)
  4. Club Women of New York, p. 116 (1914)
  5. 125 Years of Women Lawyers in Illinois - Professional Associations, Chicago Bar Association, Retrieved 20 February 2015
  6. History, National Association of Women Lawyers. Records of the National Association of Women Lawyers, 1913-1999: A Finding Aid, Harvard University Library (2013)
  7. Binheim, Max; Elvin, Charles A. (1928). Women of the West: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Living Eminent Women in the Eleven Western States of the United States of America. Los Angeles: Publishers Press. Retrieved August 6, 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  8. "Kate Hamilton Pier is laid to rest on wedding day; many pay tribute". Eagle River News: 4-5. 1925. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  9. Smith Jr., J. Clay (1999). Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 236. ISBN 9780812216851.
  10. "Our New President - Olive Stott Gabriel". Women Lawyers' Journal. 18 (1). January 1930. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
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