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What The Texas And El Paso Bar Got Wrong: First Texas Woman Lawyer Was In El Paso

According to the Iowa Department of Human Rights, the first American woman attorney was Arabella Mansfield. Mansfield passed the Iowa bar examination in 1869. [1] Although she never practiced law, she has been credited as the first female lawyer in the United States. There is, however, some controversy as to who the first female lawyer […]