State Bar of Wisconsin

The First 150 Women

The following are believed to be the state's first 150 women lawyers admitted to practice.

1879-1901

Rhoda Lavinia Goodell
1879, Janesville
Angela Josephine King
1879, Janesville
Kate Kane
1881, Janesville
Frances F. Arnold Bergenthal
1882, New London
Cora Hirtzel
1882, Oshkosh
Terrie Meahl Sumner
1885, Waukesha
Belle Case LaFollette
1885, Madison
Kate Pier
1887, Fond du Lac
Kate Hamilton Pier McIntosh
1887, Fond du Lac
Jessie E. Hutchison
1889, Richland Center
Caroline Hamilton Pier Roemer
1891, Milwaukee
Harriett Hamilton Pier Simonds
1891, Milwaukee
Norma Lawrence Long
1891, Boscobel
Sarah C. Brickley
1893, Boyceville
Alice T. Mather
1893, Madison
Elizabeth H. Fordyce Fenelon
1895
Neenah Jean Hastings
1898, Beloit
Antoinette Jackowska-Peterson
1901, Milwaukee
Edith Arelisle Zufelt
1901, Sheboygan

1902-1920

Grace Maekes
1904, Milwaukee
Mary Ella Thomas Stephenson
1908, Madison
Ellen Adelaide Cross Copp
1908, Madison
Katherine R. Williams
1909, Milwaukee
Anna B. Hill
1912, Montello
Olene Lapham
1914, Lake Beulah
Marie Desrosiers Kusta
1914, Milwaukee
Nettie Elizabeth Karcher
1915, Burlington
Ida E. Luick
1917, Milwaukee
Lenore Rappaport Mesiroff
1918, Milwaukee
Marie Jackson Brunner
1919, Clintonville
Martha Stezki
1919, Milwaukee
Geraldine McMullen
1920, Chilton
Belle Bortin Ruppa
1920, Milwaukee

1921-1935

Dorothy Walker
1922, Columbus
Elizabeth Holste-Kading
1922, Watertown
Nellie King Donaldson
1922, Racine
Mary Downey Waal
1922, Milwaukee
Lilian Kohlmetz
1922, Milwaukee
Emma Hegener
1922, Milwaukee
Gladys Cavenaugh
1923, Milwaukee
Clara Conrad
1923, Milwaukee
Sarah Maves
1923, Milwaukee
Margery Heck Riffle
1923, Racine
Caroline Marie Healy Uebele
1923, Burlington
Beatrice Walker Lampert
1924, Madison
Miriam Louise Frye
1924, Madison
Catherine O'Hara
1924, Milwaukee
Rosalia Hesse
1925, Milwaukee
Irene Higgins
1924, Eagle River
Charlotte Nachtwey
1925, Dorchester
Gertrude S. Salentine
1925, Milwaukee
Adeline Meyers Toner
1925, Madison
Dora Goodsitt
1925, Milwaukee
Daisy Carrington
1926, Milwaukee
Helen Hoy Greeley
1926, Madison
Alice Craig Edgerton
1926, Mukwanago
Louise Ehrhardt
1926, Milwaukee
Julia B. Dolan McClelland
1927, Milwaukee
Cecilia Doyle
1927, Fond du Lac
Gratia Woodside Monegan
1927, La Crosse
Lucille H. Heald
1927, Milwaukee
Lillian Hughes
1927, New Richmond
Clara M. Toppins
1927, Milwaukee
Nora Bell Padway
1927, Milwaukee
Mabel Watson Raimey
1927, Milwaukee
Lois Katherine Kuenzli Collins
1927, Waukesha
Erma C. Miller
1927, Baraboo
Grace Meyers
1927 Madison
Virginia L. North Lehmann
1928, Milwaukee
Rose Patricia Ryan
1928, Appleton
Estelle Leonore Rowe
1928, Madison
Ida M. Steig
1928, Madison
Elsie M. Wood
1928, Boscobel
Harriett Stern Smoler
1929, Kenosha
Margaret Estelle Jorgensen Allen
1929, Milwaukee
Blanche Lubarsky Swerdloff
1930, Milwaukee
Grace Alma Morgan Rossman
1930, Spring Green
Jane DeVoy Gilday
1930, Milwaukee
Rowena E. Smith Nelson
1930, Madison
Lucille M. Bragarnick Ostrow
1930, Milwaukee

1931-1937

Anna Mae Campbell Davis
1931, Madison
Eleanor Louise Jones Roe
1932, Madison
Helma Nordin
1932, Marinette
Berniece Lotwin Bernstein
1932, Madison
Helen Bridge Wingert
1932, Madison
Mary Whelan
1932, Beloit
Adriana Orlebeke Hess
1932, Oshkosh
Elisheva Iushewitz Schwartz
1932
Gertrude Spracker Kiselow
1933, Milwaukee
Mary Eschweiler
1933, Madison
Lilian Renee Cohen Post
1933, Milwaukee
Mary C. Hurth Raney
1933, Cedarberg
Dorothy Norma Korthals Stock
1933, Milwaukee
Eleanor Augusta Schalk Orr
1933, Berlin
Claryce Margaret Moreland
1933, Hayward
Clara M. Toppins
1934, Milwaukee
Marie Wells Galle
1934, Madison
Rosalie Byer Stevens
1934, Milwaukee
Edith Dopp
1934, Milwaukee
Irene Gyzinski
1935, Milwaukee
Phyllis Josephine Hughes
1935, Milwaukee
Vartak Gulbankian
1935, Racine
Anne M. Jelik
1935, Menomanie
Mildred Eda DeVries
1935, Madison
Olga Bennett
1935, Viroqua
Rosalie Stein Horwitz
1935, Chicago, IL
Emily Wangard Thomann
1936, Madison
Verle E. Sells
Florence, 1936
Verne-Marie Kopplin Freeman Slade
Placerville, 1936
Doris Lehner Vaudreuil
1936, Kenosha
Marjorie Loomis Marshall
1936, Rockwell City, IA
Mary B. Wendt Riedl
1936, Milwaukee
June A. Spearbraker Zwickey
1936, Clintonville
Ruth Hansen Van Epps
1936, Manitowoc
Margaret Reinardy Anderson
1936, Madison
Rhea Ollyers
1936, Madison
Sarah Quigley Benham
1937, Manitowoc
Christine M. Torkelsen Fellner
1937, Madison
Dorothy Clark von Briesen
1937, Racine
Elizabeth Hawkes
1937, Washburn

1938-1941

Florence Windemuth Lanning
1938, Madison
Elizabeth Leis Erasmus
1938, Milwaukee
Elizabeth von Benscoten Wight
1938, Milwaukee
Beatrice Groelle Affatica
1939, Pewaukee
Ruth Johnson Kemet
1939, Milwaukee
Lois Roehl Redlin
1939, Milwaukee
Linda K. Rosenheimer Kroncke
1939, Kewaskem
Norma Goldstein Zarky
1939, Madison
Virginia Collins Duncomb
1939, Madison
Florence Black Kruese Fairchild
1939, Madison
Helen Elizabeth Lutzen
1939, Milwaukee
Ann Ruth Kanevsky Grant
1940, born Chicago, practice Milwaukee
June C. Healy Wolf
1940, Manitowoc
Betty Sheila Mintz Slavick
1940, Milwaukee
Alice Wilson Fine
1940, Milwaukee
Elizabeth Mary Pluck Kingfogl
1941, Wauwatosa
Mary B. Smieding Kazzik
1941, Racine
Margaret Pinkley Varda
1941, Milwaukee
Harriett Frances Zetterberg Margolies
1941, Madison

1942-1944

Jeanette Elsie Mett
1942, Milwaukee
Beatrice LaVerne Wissbroecker
1942, Sheboygan
Dorothy Ann Heil
1942
Alice P. Morrissy
1942, Elkhorn
Kate Wallach
1942, Madison
Razy Geraldine Kletecka Chojnacki
1943
Ruth Elizabeth Dunham Foley
1943, Racine
Katherine Barbara Iding Dziekan
1943, Milwaukee
Emily P. Dodge
1943, Madison
Anna O. Blum
1943, Monroe
Helen Ruth Zogg Boetticher
1943, Milwaukee
Edith Pierce Mills
1943, Madison
Kathryn H. Baldwin
1943, Madison
Alice Bernice Kleman Harvey
1943, Madison
Catherine Blanchard Cleary
1943, Milwaukee
Marian Justus-Warning Hefter
1943, Madison
Joan Moonan Pinnell
1943, Milwaukee
Dorothy L. Wilkinson
1943, Milwaukee

The following women completed law school in Wisconsin but did not sign the Supreme Court roll:

Shirley Arneson Kalschuer, 1923
Florence Kyle Cornelisen, 1924
Charlotte Knight, 1924
Dorothy Blaney Wells, 1926
Therese Berg, 1933
Louise Parker Frederickson, 1933
Jane Kramer Traxel, 1933

Unconfirmed as female:

Lynn Schell,1925

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