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Details and Exceptions. Search this Guide Search. Archival Collections. Sadie T. Alexander Alexander attended University of Pennsylvania and was one of the first three African American women in the United States to earn a Ph.
Alexander was admitted to the bar in and was the first African American to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Alexander later served as Assistant City Solicitor in Philadelphia ; and eventually formed a legal aid bureau to assist African Americans. Florence Ellinwood Allen In , Allen became the first woman lawyer to be appointed to the U.
Circuit Court of Appeals, for the Sixth Circuit. Bysiewiez, the SWLE addressed issues of financial aid, child care concerns, and part-time employment, collected and disseminated statistical data on women in legal education, and drafted major resolutions and reports on the treatment of women in the legal profession.
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She also actively lobbied for women to serve as jurors. Barron was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in and opened a private law practice in Boston Following her marriage to attorney Samuel Barron in , the couple established Barron and Barron, a joint law firm in Boston.
