Hall, Mary
1843 - 1927

Details
Alias: Mary Hall
Born: 1843 in Marlborough, Connecticut
Died: 1927
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Professional Facts

Practice Area:
Will & Estates
Real Property
Profession:
Wills
Property Rights
Regions and States of Practice:
CT, Northeast
Other Education:
Wesleyan Academy
Positions During Her Career:
Commissioner of the Superior Court, appointed by Governor Hubbard, United States Judge Shipman, and others (1879- 1882)
Attorney (1882-1927)
Firsts:
Woman to be appointed a commissioner of the Superior Court in Connecticut (1879)
Female lawyer in Connecticut (1882)


Further Research Materials

References:
Mary Hall: The Decision and The Lawyer
Matthew G. Berger, Mary Hall: The Decision and The Lawyer, 79 Connecticut Bar Journal 29 (2005)
Making History: Lelia Robinson's Index to American Women Lawyers
Barbara Allen Babcock, Making History: Lelia Robinson's Index to American Women Lawyers. Stanford Law School (July 1998)
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
First Women Lawyers in the United States
C. Sleeth, First Women Lawyers in the United States, Bar Association (July 18, 1997)
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).
Can Women Practice Law?
Can Women Practice Law? 1 (5) The Law Student's Helper 102 (May 1893)
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
Mary Hall
Mary Hall, 1 Law Student's Helper 339 (1893)
Women at the Bar, Vol. 1 No. 6
Women at the Bar 1 (6) The Law Student's Helper 138 (June 1893)
Women Lawyers in the United States
Lelia J. Robinson, Women Lawyers in the United States, 2 The Green Bag 10 (1890)
Admission of Women to the Bar
Catharine V. Waite, Admission of Women to the Bar, 1 Chicago Law Times (1887)
Men and Women, Los Angeles Times, October 12, 1882
Matter of Hall
Matter of Hall, 50 Connecticut 131 (May 1882)
Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame: Mary Hall
Mary Hall; First Female Lawyer in Connecticut, Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame, available at: http://www.cwhf.org/browse_hall/hall/people/hall.php

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Student Papers:
All the Allies of Each: Lelia Robinson's Portrait of Early Women Lawyers in America
Steele, Julia, 1998