This is a short timeline of women lawyers. Much more information on the subject can be found at: List of first women lawyers and judges by nationality. * 1847 - became the first female lawyer and attorney in Serbia, doing exclusively pro bono work for charity throughout her whole career * 1869 - Arabella Mansfield became the first female lawyer in the United States when she was admitted to the Iowa bar. * 1870 - Ada Kepley became the first woman to graduate from law school in the United States; she graduated from Chicago University Law School, predecessor to Union College of Law, later known as Northwestern University School of Law. * 1872 - Charlotte E. Ray became the first African-American female lawyer in the United States. * 1872 - Clara Hapgood Nash became the first woman admitt