People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — Twelfth Woman Admitted to Practice. [ARTICLE]

Twelfth Woman Admitted to Practice.

Washington, Feb. 2.—The twelfth woman has been admitted to practice before the United States supreme court and has signed the roll at that bar. She is Miss Kate H. Pier, a prepossessing young lady from Milwaukee, and Senator Vilas of Wisconsin moved her admission. Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, of Washington, was the first woman attorney to appear there. She was admitted in 1875.