Whitney, Rosalie Loew
1873 - 1939

Details
Alias: Rosalie Loew
Born: 5/4/1873 in New York City, New York
Died: 9/3/1939
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Professional Facts
Practice Area:
Criminal Law
General Practice
Regions and States of Practice:
NY, Northeast
Legal Education:
New York University School of Law, 1895
Other Education:
B.A., Hunter College (1892)
Positions During Her Career:
Private practitioner in her father's law firm (1895-1897)
Attorney-in-Chief of the Legal Aid Society (1897-1905)
Private practitioner in the law firm she formed, Loew & Whitney (1906-1917?)
First chair of Republican Women's State Executive Committee (1920-1929)
Deputy Commissioner of Licenses (1934)
Judge in New York (1935-1939)
Helped organize the Women Lawyer's Club
Firsts:
Possibly the first woman to engage in the general practice of law in New York
Woman to try a case before the New York Supreme Court (1896)
Woman to appear in the Centre Street Police Court (July 1, 1896)
Woman attorney-in-chief for the Legal Aid Society
President of Women Lawyer's Club (1899)
Woman to apply to the New York Bar Association (Apr. 1903)
Woman to try a case before the United States District Court of New York
Woman judge in the state of New York (1935)
Further Research Materials

References:
They Builded Better Than They Knew, 1946
The Legal Aid Review, October 1939
Laundry Czarina, 15 (6) Woman's Journal 26 (1930), [Mrs. Rosalie Loew becomes director of Brooklyn Neighborhood Laundry Owner's Association]
The Legal Aid Review, January 1926
The Legal Aid Review, April 1926
The Legal Aid Review, January 1923
Justice and the Poor, 1919
The Legal Aid Review, January 1912
Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the President, Treasurer and Attorney of the Legal Aid Society,1911
The Legal Aid Review, October 1911
Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the President, Treasurer and Attorney of the Legal Aid Society, 1910
The Legal Aid Review, April 1910
Thirty-Fourth Annual Report of the President, Treasurer and Attorneys of the Legal Aid Society, 1909
The Legal Aid Review, April 1909
Thirty-Third Annual Report of the President, Treasurer and Attorneys of the Legal Aid Society, 1908
Concerning Women, 21 (1) The Woman's Standard 3 (approx. 1907), [Mrs. Harriette Johnson admitted to New York State Bar Association]
Thirty-Second Annual Report of the President, Treasurer and Attorneys of the Legal Aid Society, 1907
The Legal Aid Review, April 1907
The Legal Aid Review, July 1907
Thirt-First Annual Report of the President, Treasurer and Attorney of the Legal Aid Society, 1906
The Legal Aid Review, April 1906
Thirtieth Annual Report of the President, Treasurer and Attorneys of the Legal Aid Society, 1905
The Legal Aid Review, April 1905
Men and Women As Lawyers, 21 (2) The Woman's Tribune 6
Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the President, Treasurer and Attorneys of the Legal Aid Society, 1904
The Legal Aid Review, January 1904
The Legal Aid Review, March 1904
The Legal Aid Review, June 1904
The Legal Aid Review, September, 1904
Twenty Eigth Annual Report of the President, Treasurer and Attorneys of the Legal Aid Society, 1903
The Legal Aid Review, April 1903
The Legal Aid Review, July 1903
The Legal Aid Review, October 1903
Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the President of the Legal Aid Society, 1902
Twenty Fifth Annual Report of the President, Treasurer and Attorneys of the Legal Aid Society, 1900
Twenty-Third Annual Report of the President, Treasurer and Attorney of the Legal Aid Society, 1898
Twenty-Second Annual Report of the President, Treasurer and Attorney of the Legal Aid Society, 1897
A Woman Lawyer in Court, New York Times, June 16, 1896, at 8, [Miss Rosalie Loew as counsel in court]
Twenty-First Annual Report of the President, Treasurer and Attorney of the Legal Aid Society, 1896
Twentieth Annual Report of the President of the German Legal Aid Society,1895

Student Papers:
Rosalie Loew Whitney: The Early Years as Advocate for the Poor
Blumkin, Rada, 2001
Rosalie Loew Whitney: Lawyer, Crime Fighter, Judge, Political Activist, Suffragist
Haas-Laursen, Danielle, 2001