Junior League of Saint Paul (Saint Paul, Minn.).

The Junior League of St. Paul was formed on May 7, 1917 with 50 charter members. The founding leaders were Elizabeth Ames Jackson, Elizabeth Crunden Skinner, and Anne Turney White. The St. Paul League was the 19th League to be formed in the United States and was one of 30 which helped found the Association of Junior Leagues of America in 1921.

The mission of the St. Paul Junior League parallels the purposes of other Junior Leagues across America and have not, in essence, changed since the St. Paul League was originally founded. In brief, their mission is to provide volunteer services and charitable contributions to improve the social, economic, educational, and cultural conditions of the community. Membership is open by invitation to women between the ages of 18 and 40 and each member is expected to give a minimum number of hours in weekly volunteer service. Because the League also requires its provisional members to pay an initiation fee as well as annual dues, membership has typically appealed to the more privileged classes of women's society.

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