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On Friday, January 13, 2012, the Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission and Southern Illinois University School of Law will open an exhibit highlighting different aspects of women and the law. The opening will take place at 5 pm in the Lesar Law Building Formal Lounge at 1150 Douglas Drive in Carbondale, Illinois. John A. Lupton, Director of History Programs, Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission, will give a short presentation about the exhibit which will be on display at the law school during the spring semester. The exhibit will feature such women as Myra Bradwell whose efforts to gain admission to the bar in Illinois (1869) became a national story, one that is often cited more than a century later. Other featured women include: Alta Hulett, Illinois' first woman to become a licensed attorney; she was only 19 (1873). Catherine Waugh McCulloch, the first woman in Illinois to serve as justice of the peace (1907). |
