Clark, Martha Strickland Miller
1853 - 1935

Details
AliasES: Martha Strickland, Martha Miller
Born: 3/25/1853 in St. Johns, Michigan
Died: 6/17/1935
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Professional Facts

Regions and States of Practice:
MI, Midwest
Legal Education:
University of Michigan Law School, 1883
Positions During Her Career:
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Clinton County (1883-1886)
Private practitioner in Detroit (1887-1890s)
Firsts:
Female attorney to practice in Detroit (1887)
Woman lawyer to argue before the Michigan Supreme Court (1888)
Taught a class in Parliamentary Law in Detroit


Further Research Materials

References:
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
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
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)

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Student Papers:
Martha Strickland (Clark)
Jacobson, Carolyn, 2005