Ricker, Marilla Marks Young
1840 - 1920

Details
Alias: Marilla Marks Young
Born: 3/18/1840 in New Durham, New Hampshire
Died: 11/12/1920
Professional Facts

Practice Area:
Criminal Law
Profession:
Criminal law
Regions and States of Practice:
DC, South
Positions During Her Career:
Private practitioner in various D.C. offices (1882-?)
Commissioner and Examiner in Chancery in D.C. (1884-?)
Firsts:
Woman to cast her ballot in a state election prior to the passage of the 19th Amendment (1871)
Woman appointed Commissioner and Examiner in Chancery in the District of Columbia (1884)
Woman to be admitted to the New Hampshire bar (1890)
Woman to apply for a foreign ambassadorship (1897)
Woman to announce her candidacy for governor of New Hampshire (1910)
Accomplishments:
Opened the New Hampshire bar to all women (1890)


Further Research Materials

References:
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)
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
First Women Lawyers in the United States
C. Sleeth, First Women Lawyers in the United States, Bar Association (July 18, 1997)
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).
Notes About Women, 26 (1) The Women's Tribune 59 (March 1909)
Stella Reid Crothers, American Women Lawyers, The Home Magazine, September 1907, pp.15
Woman Attorneys-at-Law
Woman Attorneys-at-Law, Woman's Journal
Ambitious Feminines, Los Angeles Times, March 12, 1897, at 6
Occupations for Women
Frances Willard, Helen Maria Winslow, Sallie Elizabeth Joy White, Occupations for Women, "Women at the Bar." Success Co.: 1897. Available at: http://books.google.com/books?id=XkwbAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA402&ots=Ye723_xDi6&dq=Frances%20Willard%2C%20Occupations%20for%20Women%20%281897%29&pg=PA371#v=onepage&q&f=false
Can Women Practice Law?
Can Women Practice Law? 1 (5) The Law Student's Helper 102 (May 1893)
Women at the Bar, Vol. 1 No. 12
Women at the Bar, 1 (12) The Law Student's Helper 339 (December, 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
Women Lawyers in the United States
Lelia J. Robinson, Women Lawyers in the United States, 2 The Green Bag 10 (1890)
Marilla M. Ricker
Marilla M. Ricker, The Law Student's Helper

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