AuthorBerry, Dawn Bradley.
TitleThe 50 most influential women in American law / by Dawn Bradley Berry.
PublishedLos Angeles : Lowell House ; Chicago : Contemporary Books, c1996.
Descriptionxiv, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN1-56565-469-2
Bib. NoteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 341-348) and index.
Formatted NoteContents: Margaret Brent, 1601-1671 -- Arabella Babb Mansfield, 1846-1911 -- Elizabeth Ware Packard, 1816-1897 -- Belva Lockwood, 1830-1917 -- Myra Colby Bradwell, 1831-1894 -- Clara Shortridge Foltz, 1849-1934 -- Laura De Force Gordon, 1838-1907 -- Lyda Burton Conley, 1854?-1942? -- Esther McQuigg Morris, 1814-1902 -- Lemma Barkeloo, 1848?-1870 -- Charlotte E. Ray, 1850-1911 -- Mary Gysin Leonard, 1850?-1920? -- Mary Clyens Lease, 1850-1933 -- Ellen Spencer Mussey, 1850-1936 -- Lettie Burlingame, 1859-1890 -- Tiera Farrow, 1880-1971 -- Crystal Eastman, 1881-1928 -- Florence Ellinwood Allen, 1884-1966 --Dorothy Kenyon, 1888-1972 -- Mabel Walker Willebrandt, 1889-1963 -- Carol Weiss King, 1895-1952 -- Margaret Chase Smith, 1897-1995 -- Eunice Hunton Carter, 1899-1970 -- Fanny Holtzmann, 1903-1980 -- Rachel Carson, 1907-1964 -- Gladys Towles Root, 1905-1982 -- Rosa Parks, 1913- -- Cecelia Goetz, 1917- -- Sola Mentschikoff, 1915-1986 --

Florynce Kennedy, 1916- -- Ruth Harvey Charity, 1920?- -- Constance Baker Motley, 1921- -- Shirley Chisholm, 1924- -- Sandra Day O'Connor, 1930- -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1933- -- Gloria Steinem, 1934- -- Geraldine A. Ferraro, 1935- -- Barbara Jordan, 1936-1996 -- Rose Elizabeth Bird, 1936- -- Janet Reno, 1938- -- Marian Wright Edelman, 1939- -- Arlene Violet, 1943- -- Patricia Schroeder, 1940- -- Sarah Ragle Weddington, 1945- -- Harriet Rabb, 1941- -- Antonia Hernandez, 1948- -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1947- -- Linda Fairstein, 1948- -- Nancy J. Mintie, 1954- -- Marcia Clark, 1953- .
SubjectsAllen, Florence Ellinwood, 1884-1966.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
Women judges -- United States -- Biography.
Women lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
Women legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
Other TitlesFifty most influential women in American law
LC Card Number96-41614
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