Rawalt, Marguerite
1895 - 1989

Details
Born: 10/16/1895 in Prairie City, Illinois
Died: 12/16/1989
Professional Facts

Regions and States of Practice:
TX, South
Legal Education:
The George Washington University Law School, 1933
Other Education:
Pre-legal, University of Texas
B.A., George Washington University
LL.M., George Washington University (1936)
Honorary Doctor of Laws degree, Baylor University (1945)
Positions During Her Career:
Secretary to the governor of Texas
Attorney in the office of chief counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue
President of the National Association of Women Lawyers (1942-1943) and the Federal Bar Association (1943-1944); Succeeded by Tom Campbell Clark (1945)
Firsts:
Woman president of the FBA
Woman sent to the American Bar Association's House of Delegates (1943)


Further Research Materials

References:
Susan Ware (Editor) and Stacy Braukman, Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing The Twentieth Century. The Bellknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2004.
Marguerite Rawalt Papers 1870s-1989: A Finding Aid
Marguerite Rawalt Papers 1870s-1989: A Finding Aid, Rawalt, Marguerite, 1895- . Papers, 1870s-1989: A Finding Aid , Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, November 2002, available at: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00250
A Century of Achievement: The Centennial of the National Association of Women Lawyers
Selma Moidel Smith: A Century of Achievement: The Centennial of the National Association of Women Lawyers, 85 Women Lawyers Journal 2 (Summer 1999) *Originally printed as two articles: "...The First 50 Years," 9 Experience 1 (Fall 1998), and "...The Second 50 Years," 9 Experience 2 (Winter 1999)
Catherine Aman, Centuries of Change, Women in the Law, The American Lawyer, March 1999, pp.57-60
Smith, J. Clay (John Clay), Emancipation : The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press (1993)
Laura Miller Derry, Digest of Women Lawyers and Judges. Lousville, Kentucky: Dunne Press (1949)
Marguerite Rawalt to Represent National, 1 The Illinois Bulletin (1925)