Goodell, Rhoda Lavinia
1839 - 1880

Details
Born: 5/2/1839 in Utica, New York
Died: 3/31/1880
Professional Facts

Practice Area:
Criminal Law
Individual Rights
Profession:
Criminal Law/prison reform
Regions and States of Practice:
WI, Midwest
Positions During Her Career:
Assistant editor at Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1864-1868)
Formed an all-female firm in Wisconsin (1879)
Firsts:
Woman lawyer in Wisconsin
Woman admitted to the Wisconsin Supreme Court Bar


Further Research Materials

References:
Women Defenders in the West
Barbara Allen Babcock, Women Defenders in the West, University of Nevada Law Journal 1 (2001)
Mary Lahr Schier, Strong-Minded Woman: The Story of Lavina Goodell, Wisconsin's First Female Lawyer. Midwest History Press (2001)
Catherine Aman, Enter the Ladies, Women in the Law, The American Lawyer, March 1999, pp.110-112
Book Review: Feminist Lawyers
Barbara Allen Babcock, Book Review: Feminist Lawyers, 50 Stanford Law Review 1689 (May 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
Pioneers in the Law: The First 150 Women. State Bar of Wisconsin (1998), Describes the hardships and recognizes the efforts of the first 150 women lawyers admitted to the State Bar of Wisconsin, 1879-1943.
First Women Lawyers in the United States
C. Sleeth, First Women Lawyers in the United States, Bar Association (July 18, 1997)
Curriculum Vitae (Feminae): Biography and Early American Women Lawyers
Carol Sanger, Curriculum Vitae (Feminae): Biography and Early American Women Lawyers, 46 Stanford Law Review 1245 (1994)
Karen B. Morello, The Invisible Bar: The Woman Lawyer in America 1638 to the Present. New York: Random House (1986)
Wisconsin's Women Lawyers--Past and Present
Priscilla Ruth MacDougall, Wisconsin's Women Lawyers - Past and Present, 21 (2) Wisconsin Academy Review 7 (Spring 1975), available at: http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/WER1106.html
Ruth Miriam Kohler, The Story of Wisconsin Women. The Committee on Wisconsin Women for the 1948 Wisconsin Centennial (1948)
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).
Berryman, John R., History of the Bench and Bar of Wisconsin. Chicago: H. C. Cooper, Jr. (1898)
Can Women Practice Law?
Can Women Practice Law? 1 (5) The Law Student's Helper 102 (May 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)
Parker McCobb Reed, Women Lawyers. In The Bench and Bar of Wisconsin: History and Biography, with Portrait Illustrations (531-532). Milwaukee: Reed (1882)
Wisconsin's Female Lawyer
Wisconsin's Female Lawyer, The San Francisco Chronicle, March 23, 1879, at 6
Application of Miss Goodell
Application of Miss Goodell, 48 Wisconsin 693 (June 18, 1879)
Lavinia Goodell, A Day In the Life of A Woman Lawyer, The Woman's Journal 354 (November 10, 1877)
Women Lawyers (1876)
Women Lawyers, The Woman's Journal (April 22, 1876)
Lady Lawyers In Supreme Court
Lady Lawyers In Supreme Court, The Woman's Journal 4 (January 1, 1876)
Mrs. Goodell's Case, 3 Central Law Journal 186
In the Matter of the Motion to Admit Miss Lavinia Goodell to the Bar of this Court
In the Matter of the Motion to Admit Miss Lavinia Goodell to the Bar of this Court, 39 Wisconsin 232 (1875)

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Student Papers:
Lavinia Goodell
Kaul, Joshua