Women -- Employment -- United States; Women -- Social and moral questions
Marilla M. Ricker, while a resident of the District of Columbia, was
appointed Commissioner and Examiner in Chancery by the Supreme Court of
the District, and several cases were heard before her. Other women
lawyers, in various parts of the country, have been appointed examiners
in chancery and examiners of applicants for admission to the bar. Mary
E. Haddock, LL.B., in June, 1878, was appointed by the Supreme Court of
Iowa to examine students of the State University for graduation and
admission to the bar. She was reappointed for two successive years. Ada
Lee, of Port Huron, Michigan, the year following her admission in 1883,
was elected to the office of Circuit Court Commissioner, having been
nominated, without solicitation on her part, by the Republican,
Democratic, and Greenback parties of St. Clair county. “She performed
the duties of this office, and held it until the expiration of her term,
despite the fact that thirteen suits were begun to oust her, during
which time two hundred and seventeen cases were tried before her.” Mrs.
J. M. Kellogg acted as Assistant Attorney-General during the time her
husband was Attorney-General of Kansas. They are law partners.
Phoebe W. Couzins, LL.B., was chief deputy United States Marshal for the
Eastern District of Missouri during the time her father was the Marshal.
At the death of her father she was named his successor, which position
she held until removed by the incoming Democratic administration.
Catherine G. Waugh, A.M., LL.B., was for a year or two Professor of
Commercial Law in the Rockford (Ill.) Commercial College. Mrs. Foltz
delivered a legal address before the students of Union College of Law in
1886. Mary A. Greene, LL.B. recently delivered a course of lectures
before the students of Lasell Seminary on “Business Law for Women.”
Several able articles have been written for law journals by women
lawyers of this country. Of books, M. B. R. Shay, is author of
“Students’ Guide to Common Law Pleading” (published in 1881.) Of this
work, Hon. R. M. Benjamin, dean of Law Faculty, and Hon. A. G. Kerr,
professor of Pleading of Law Department of the Illinois Wesleyan
University, say, as published in Callaghan & Company’s annual catalogue
of law books:
“We have examined with considerable care Shay’s Questions on Common Law
Pleading, and can cheerfully recommend them to students as admirably
adapted to guide them to a thorough knowledge of the principles of
pleading as laid down by those masters of the system, Stephen, Gould,
and Chitty.”
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