Английская Википедия:Alice G. McGee
Alice G. McGee (1869–1895) was a lawyer included in A Woman of the Century[1] and the second woman admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar,[2] She was born in Warren, Pennsylvania and graduated from Warren High School in 1886.[1] McGee studied for three years as a student in the law office of Wetmore, Noyes & Hinckley and was admitted to the Bar after she turned twenty-one on May 13, 1890.[3][4][1]
Early life
McGee was the only daughter of Joseph A. McGee and Catherine McGee[2] and spent most of her life on a farm.[1] She was educated in music and painting, which McGee had planned to pursue as a career.[1] After graduating from Warren High School in 1886, she worked as a librarian and teacher.[1]
Gaining admission
In 1887, she decided to pursue a career in law, and by February 16, 1887, had registered as a student lawyer at Wetmore, Noyes & Hinckley,[5][1] a prominent firm that had argued two cases in front of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court only a few years earlier.[6][7]
On May 13, 1890, after McGee turned twenty-one, she was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar by Judge Brown.[3] McGee was only the second woman to be admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar after Caroline Burnham Kilgore, who persevered sixteen years before she became a recognized member of the Bar.[8] McGee, on the other hand, only worked as a student lawyer for three years and did not attend law school before gaining admission.[1]
McGee's assent from student lawyer to member of the Bar in three years was not only faster than other women at the time,[8] but is also comparable to her male counterparts.[9] Although law school was an option in 1890, law school was not required, and many were reluctant to admit women.[10][11][12][13]
As a lawyer and actor
Although McGee was a successful counselor and pleader,[1] she found the practice of law slow and unprofitable, so she started an acting career, appearing in "The Queen of Sheba" in 1893–94.[2] She died at the age of twenty-six in 1895.
References
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 1,7 1,8 A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied By Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Frances E. Willard & Mary A. Livermore, eds., 1893), https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Alice_G._McGee.
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 Josh Cotton, Trailblazer, Times Observer (Feb. 20, 2021), https://www.timesobserver.com/news/community/2021/02/trailblazer/.
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 Lelia J. Robinson, Women Lawyers in the United States, 2 Green Bag 68, 87 (Autumn 1998).
- ↑ Elizabeth K. Maurer, The Sphere of Carrie Burnham Kilgore, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 827, 849 n. 202.
- ↑ She Will Win Sure: Western Pennsylvania's Young Lady Lawyer Is a Beauty, Pittsburgh Dispatch, May 25, 1890, at 6, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41521879/pittsburgh-dispatch/.
- ↑ Richard v. Allen, 117 Pa. 199 (1887).
- ↑ Sager v. Galloway, 113 Pa. 500 (1886).
- ↑ 8,0 8,1 Willard, Winslow & White 1897, p. 373.Шаблон:Full citation needed
- ↑ Kellogg, Frank Billings, Bibliographic Directory of the United States Congress, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/K000065.
- ↑ Lewis Ethan Ellis, Frank B. Kellogg and American foreign relations, 1925-1929 (1961).
- ↑ Women in Law: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook (1996), https://archive.org/details/womeninlawbiobib0000unse.
- ↑ James Willard Hurst, Lawyers in American Society 1750–1966, 50 Marquette L. Rev. 594, 602–603 (1967), https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=2502&context=mulr.
- ↑ Evolution of the Board, Pennsylvania Board of Examiners, https://www.pabarexam.org/board_information/history/evo.htm
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