Arkansas Association of Women Lawyers records, 1938-1989.

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Arkansas Association of Women Lawyers records, 1938-1989.

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Correspondence, minutes of meetings, meeting notices, membership lists, photo album, scrapbook of newspaper clippings, and records from the Little Rock Association of Women Lawyers, the Arkansas Bar Association, and the National Association of Women Lawyers. Includes folders dealing with research on early women lawyers in Arkasas and papers of past association presidents Annabelle Clinton, Neva Talley-Morris, and Jackie Wright. Several folders deal with the career of Elsijane Trimble Roy, the first woman appointed to the Arkansas State Supreme Court and the first woman in Arkansas to serve as a federal judge.

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Arkansas History Commission, Department of Archives and History

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Wright, Jacqueline S.

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National Association of Women Lawyers

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The National Association of Women Lawyers grew out of the Women Lawyers Club, which was formed by 18 women lawyers in New York City in 1899. Its first major project was support for women's suffrage, a concern that was featured prominently in the Women Lawyers' Journal, which began publication in 1911. Other organizational goals included appointment of women to the bench, the right of women to serve on juries, the enactment of child labor legislation, minimum wage laws, and the defeat of protecti...

Talley-Morris, Neva B.

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Roy, Elsijane Trimble, 1916-2007

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Elsijane Trimble Roy was born in Lonoke on April 2, 1916, the daughter of Elsie Jane Walls and Thomas Clark Trimble III. Her father and her grandfather, Thomas Clark Trimble II were attorneys and practiced with Seanator Joseph T. Robinson. She enrolled at the University of Arkansas in 1934, majored in law, graduating in 1939. She was admitted to the state bar in 1939. In April 1966, she became the state's first woman judge, occupying the position of justice for Arkansas's Sixth District court th...

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Imber, Annabelle Clinton, 1950-

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Arkansas Bar Association

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