King, Florence Embrey
1870 - 1924

Details
Alias: Florence Embrey
Born: 6/22/1870 in Hudson, Iowa
Died: 6/20/1924
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Professional Facts
Practice Area:
Contracts
Intellectual Propert
Profession:
Patent Law
Women's Suffrage
Regions and States of Practice:
IL, Midwest
Legal Education:
Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1895
Other Education:
B.A., Mount Morris College (1891)
Armour Institute of Technology (currently the Illinios Institute of Technology) (1897)
Positions During Her Career:
Stenographer and court reporter in Chicago (1891-?)
Private practitioner in Illinois (1900-1924)
Vice-president of the Women's Bar Association of Chicago (1918)
On the Board of Governors of the Woman's Association of Commerce (1919)
President of the International Woman's Association of Commerce (1919-1922)
Vice-president of the Illinios branch of the American Association of Engineers (1919)
Director of Illinios League of Women Voters (1920)
Firsts:
Woman registered to practice before the U.S. Patent Office (1897)
Vice-president of the Women's Bar Association of Chicago (1918)
Woman to argue a patent case in the U.S. Supreme Court (1922)
Woman to win a case before the Supreme Court (1923)
Accomplishments:
Organized the Woman's Alaska Gold Club (1898)
Founded Chicago Woman's Association of Commerce (1912)
Honorary member of the Illinios Women's Athletic Club of Chicago (1918)
Further Research Materials

References:
Justice is Truth in Action: Success Is Being Won By Many Women In The Administration Of Law and Justice
Ida White Parker, Justice is Truth in Action: Success Is Being Won By Many Women In The Administration Of Law and Justice, The Business Woman 8 (1923)
Transcript of Record, Crown Die & Tool Co. v. Nye Tool & Machine Works, 261 U.S. 24 (1922).
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office file history: U.S. Patent 1,182,398: inventor, Robert Malcom, issued May 9, 1916: Prosecuted by Attorney Florence King.
John William Leonard (Editor), Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. New York: The American Commonwealth Company (1915)

Student Papers:
Florence King: First Woman Patent Attorney
Largent, Craig, 2004