Thursday, March 14, 2013
FIRST WOMAN TO PASS THE NEW YORK STATE BAR EXAM
KATHERINE "KATE" STONEMAN was a self-taught practitioner of the law who passed the New York State Bar Exam in 1886, becoming the first woman ever to do so. However, her formal application to join the bar was swiftly rejected on the basis of her gender. Three Supreme Court justices denied her admission, citing "No precedent." After her rejection, she successfully campaigned to modify the state's Code of Civil Procedure in order to allow for the admission of all qualified applicants, regardless of race or gender. After her admission to the bar she went on to study law formally at Albany Law School, and graduated from Albany Law School in 1898. Stoneman was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in October 2009.
WHO SAID: "America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live."
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