Law: Women

Meeting simultaneously with the convention of the American Bar Association, the Women Lawyers’ Association will open its first national convention at Minneapolis on August 28. The Women Lawyers’ Association is now ten years old. It has branches in 32 states and in Trance, Italy, Austria, Porto Rico.

In 1869 Phoebe Cousins, of St. Louis, created a sensation by being the first woman to enter a law college. The next year three other women, not college graduates, were admitted to the bar—two in Iowa, one in the District of Columbia, In 1885 Mrs. Belle Case La Toilette (wife of the Senator from Wisconsin) received from the University of Wisconsin the first de- gree of LL.B. ever given to a woman. Today woman lawyers, though few in numbers compared to men, can be found throughout the fabric of the legal world. From Mabel Walker Willebrandt (one of the United States Assistant Attorney Generals), Judge Florence E. Allen (on the Ohio Supreme Bench), and Edith Newman (advisor to General Crowder in drafting Cuban banking laws) to a multitude of women in private law offices, they are scattered everywhere. When the first convention assembles at Minneapolis, it will have for President Miss Emilie M. Bullowa, of the firm of Bullowa & Bullowa, New York (the rest of the firm being her two brothers), an authority on admiralty law, and for Vice Presidents, Kate Pier Mclntosh, of Milwaukee, and Judge Florence E. Allen, of Cleveland.

At Columbia

The New York League of Women Voters has addressed a letter to the trustees of Columbia University renewing an earlier request that women be permitted to attend the University of Columbia Law School.