DID YOU KNOW?
PIONEERING
STETSON WOMEN
1900 1930
PROFESSOR ELIZABETH LEEMAN WAS THE
FIRST WOMAN LAWYER APPOINTED TO
THE STETSON LAW FACULTY (IN 1970). 2.7%
PROFESSOR LUZ NAGLE
WAS THE FIRST TENURED
HISPANIC LAW PROFESSOR
AT STETSON LAW.
THE FIRST WOMAN LAW SCHOOL GRADUATE
ADMITTED TO PRACTICE IN FLORIDA WAS A
STETSON LAW GRADUATE:
MARY
STEWART
SHE WAS ADMITTED TO PRACTICE BY THE
FLORIDA SUPREME COURT ON JUNE 20, 1908.
SHE WAS ALSO THE FIRST FEMALE GRADUATE
OF STETSON LAW.
BETWEEN 1900-1930,
STETSON WAS THE ONLY
LAW SCHOOL IN FLORIDA
TO ADMIT AND GRADUATE
WOMEN LAWYERS.
WHEN PROFESSOR OF LAW EMERITA
RUTH THURMAN EARNED HER LAW
DEGREE FROM STETSON IN 1963, ONLY 2.7
PERCENT OF THE NATION’S LAWYERS
WERE WOMEN.
IN 1994, DEAN EMERITA AND PROFESSOR OF
LAW LIZABETH MOODY WAS APPOINTED
STETSON LAW’S 12TH DEAN. SHE WAS THE
FIRST WOMAN TO HOLD THE POST.
PROFESSOR DOROTHEA BEANE
WAS THE FIRST TENURED
MINORITY LAW PROFESSOR
AT STETSON LAW.
12TH DEAN
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Facts courtesy Florida’s First Law School, by Michael I. Swygert and W. Gary Vause