McCulloch, Catharine Gouger Waugh
1862 - 1945
Details
AliasES: Kittie Waugh, Catharine Gouger Waugh
Born: 6/2/1862 in Ransomville, New York
Died: 4/20/1945
Professional Facts
Practice Area:
Family LawWill & Estates
Estates and Trusts
Profession:
Real estateDivorce law
Collecting claims
Probate law
Regions and States of Practice:
IL, Midwest
Legal Education:
Northwestern University School of Law, 1886
Other Education:
Rockford College (1888)
Positions During Her Career:
Attorney with the Rockford Law firm of Marshall and Taggart (1884-1886)Opened a legal practice in Rockford (1886-1890)
Professor of commercial law in the business college of Rockford (1 year in the 1880s)
Establishes a joint legal practice with her husband - McCulloch & McCulloch (1890-1945?)
Legislative superintendent of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (1890-1912)
Justice of the peace in Illinois (1907-1913)
Legal adviser (1904-1911) and Vice President (1910-1911) of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
President of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois (1916-1920)
Master in chancery of the Cook County Superior Court (1917-1925)
Firsts:
Woman justice of the peace in Illinois (1907)
Accomplishments:
Received an honorary LLD from Rockford College (1936)Both Catharine and Frank named "Senior Counselors" by the Illinois Bar Association in honor of their many years of legal practice together (1940)
Further Research Materials
References:
A Real Revolution
Barbara Allen Babcock, A Real Revolution, 49 (4) The University of Kansas Law Review 719 (May 2001)
Barbara Allen Babcock, A Real Revolution, 49 (4) The University of Kansas Law Review 719 (May 2001)
The First Women Members of the Supreme Court Bar, 1879 - 1900
Mary L. Clark, The First Women Members of the Supreme Court Bar, 1879-1900, 36 San Diego Law Review 87 (1999)
Mary L. Clark, The First Women Members of the Supreme Court Bar, 1879-1900, 36 San Diego Law Review 87 (1999)
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
Julia Steele, All the Allies of Each: Lelia Robinson's Portrait of Early Women Lawyers in America, 1998
Legal Pioneers: Four of Illinois First Women Lawyers
Meg Gorecki, Legal Pioneers: Four of Illinois First Women Lawyers, Illinois Bar Journal 510 (October 1990)
Meg Gorecki, Legal Pioneers: Four of Illinois First Women Lawyers, Illinois Bar Journal 510 (October 1990)
Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Citizenship of a Wife, Woman Citizen (May 29, 1920)
Stella Reid Crothers, American Women Lawyers, The Home Magazine, September 1907, pp.15
Robbers Fired It, The Atlanta Constitution, August 4, 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
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)
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)
Catharine V. Waite, Admission of Women to the Bar, 1 Chicago Law Times (1887)
Links:
Student Papers:
Emphasis On Women Lawyers' Femininity
Erickson, Mary, 1988
Erickson, Mary, 1988
Women Lawyers' Male-Connectedness
Erickson, Mary, 1988
Erickson, Mary, 1988