Welcome to The Women's Legal History Website

The Robert Crown Library Staff in collaboration with Professor Barbara Babcock and her students have created this website as a resource for all who are interested in the subject of women lawyers in the United States. Our main tool is biography, a study of the lives of the individual women lawyers, and the movements and philosophies that inspired and sustained them.

The Women Lawyers Index:
The Women Lawyers Index is a list of all the women lawyers in our collection so far. By clicking on the name of a pioneer woman, you will find a list of what is here and links to that material. To see a sample of the kinds of material available, click on Belva Lockwood in the Index, and note the various chapters and articles linked there.

Clara Shortridge Foltz:
The project started with a single biography - that of Clara Shortridge Foltz, the first woman lawyer in California. In the course of writing her life, Foltz's biographer, Professor Barbara Babcock, has compiled a wealth of information about her subject and the times in which she lived, and most particularly, the other women lawyers she knew. Therefore, an entire section of the website is devoted to Ms. Foltz and consists of her publications in the course of the biography-in-progress.

Research Resourses:
A guide to other websites, articles and books that provide comprehensive information on women lawyers.