Minnie Anderson Hale

American lawyer

Minnie Anderson Hale (later Minnie Hale Daniel) was one of the first three female lawyers in Georgia.[1]

On June 9, 1911, she became the first female to graduate from the Atlanta Law School—as well as the first female to graduate from a law school in the state. Nevertheless, she was denied the right to practice law. In 1916 "An Act to Permit Females to Practice Law", otherwise known as the "Portia Bill", was signed by Governor Nathaniel Edwin Harris, and Hale was finally admitted to practice law in the state of Georgia.[2] She became the first of the three female lawyers in Georgia, as Betty Reynolds Cobb and Mary C. Johnson were admitted the same year. In 1922, Hale was elected as the Vice-President of the Georgia of the Women Lawyers' Association.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

## See also

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* List of first women lawyers and judges in Georgia

## References

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1. ^ "WOMEN IN THE PROFESSION: 100 Years of Georgia Women Lawyers" (PDF). State Bar of Georgia Young Lawyers Division in the Profession Committee. 2016.
2. ^ a b Bradley, Sharon. "LibGuides: Georgia Women Lawyers, 100 Years: "Attorneys at Law; Females May Be."". libguides.law.uga.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
3. ^ Alumnae (U.S.), Association of Collegiate (1917). The Journal of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Association of Collegiate Alumnae at the University of Chicago Press.
4. ^ Davis, Rebecca Shriver; Peacock, Sandra J. (2004). Judge Faye Sanders Martin: Head Full of Sense, Heart Full of Gold. Mercer University Press. ISBN 9780865547537.
5. ^ American Legal News. American Legal News Corporation. 1916.
6. ^ The Hampton Magazine. Broadway Publishing Company. 1911. p. 319.
7. ^ Carle, Susan D. (2005-08-22). Lawyers' Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice: A Critical Reader. NYU Press. p. 88. ISBN 9780814716397.