Greene, Mary Anne
1857 - 1936
Details
Born: 6/14/1857 in Warwick, Rhode Island
Died: 8/9/1936
Professional Facts
Practice Area:
Commercial LawEstates and Trusts
Profession:
Estate practiceConveyancing law
Regions and States of Practice:
RI, Northeast
Legal Education:
Boston University School of Law, 1888
Positions During Her Career:
Worked in Alfred Hemenway's law office in Boston (1887)Lecturer of practical business law for women at Lasell Seminary in Auburndale, Massachusetts (1889-1906)
Private practitioner in Rhode Island (1890-1920)
Vice president and legal counsel for the Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society (1894-1910)
Firsts:
Most likely, first woman to lecture on business law and to teach such a course to other women (1889)Woman to publish in the American Law Review (1890)
Woman to argue a case before the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1907)
Further Research Materials
References:
All the Allies of Each: Lelia Robinson's Portrait of Early Women Lawyers in America
Julia Steele, All the Allies of Each: Lelia Robinson's Portrait of Early Women Lawyers in America, 1998
Julia Steele, All the Allies of Each: Lelia Robinson's Portrait of Early Women Lawyers in America, 1998
Angels and Amazons: A Hundred Years Of American Women
Inez Haynes Irwin Gillmore, Angels And Amazons: A Hundred Years Of American Women. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company (1933).
Inez Haynes Irwin Gillmore, Angels And Amazons: A Hundred Years Of American Women. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company (1933).
Mary A. Greene, Mrs. Lelia Robinson Sawtelle--First Woman Lawyer of Massachusetts, 7 (7) Women Law Journal 51 (1918)
Occupations for Women
Frances Willard, Helen Maria Winslow, Sallie Elizabeth Joy White, Occupations for Women, "Women at the Bar." Success Co.: 1897. Available at: http://books.google.com/books?id=XkwbAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA402&ots=Ye723_xDi6&dq=Frances%20Willard%2C%20Occupations%20for%20Women%20%281897%29&pg=PA371#v=onepage&q&f=false
Frances Willard, Helen Maria Winslow, Sallie Elizabeth Joy White, Occupations for Women, "Women at the Bar." Success Co.: 1897. Available at: http://books.google.com/books?id=XkwbAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA402&ots=Ye723_xDi6&dq=Frances%20Willard%2C%20Occupations%20for%20Women%20%281897%29&pg=PA371#v=onepage&q&f=false
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 and Mary A. Livermore (Editors), A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life, pp. 210-211. New York: Charles Wells Moulton (1893), available at: http://books.google.com/books?id=zXEEAAAAYAAJ
Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore (Editors), A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life, pp. 210-211. New York: Charles Wells Moulton (1893), available at: http://books.google.com/books?id=zXEEAAAAYAAJ
Another Woman Lawyer, New York Times, January 21, 1891
Women Lawyers in the United States
Lelia J. Robinson, Women Lawyers in the United States, 2 The Green Bag 10 (1890)
Lelia J. Robinson, Women Lawyers in the United States, 2 The Green Bag 10 (1890)
America: National Woman's Suffrage Association of Massachusetts, Women's Penny Papper, June 22, 1889, at 8
Links:
Student Papers:
Types of Practices and Cases Pursued by Women Lawyers
Erickson, Mary, 1988
Erickson, Mary, 1988
“A Pioneer Woman”: The Scholar and Lawyer, Mary Anne Greene
Johnson, Kathryn, 2006
Johnson, Kathryn, 2006