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Women Advancing Women In and Through the Law In 2020 and Beyond
By Cisselon Nichols Hurd, Senior Counsel in the Global Litigation – Americas group of Shell Oil Company
and Linda Broocks, Founder and Immediate Past President of executive committee of Center for Women in Law

Women lawyers were instrumental in every stage of the struggle for suffrage.  Though separated by generations and by geography, two important figures were Mary Ann Shadd Cary (A veteran suffragist from Washington, D. C. who worked as a journalist, teacher, lawyer, and politician.  She is perhaps the first African American suffragist to form a suffrage Association and became the first woman student at Howard University Law School in the 1870’s) and Hortense Sparks Ward (She lobbied the U.S. Congress in support of women's suffrage and is credited with drafting the primary-suffrage bill, which the Texas Legislature passed in 1918. Her efforts were realized when she became the first woman to register to vote in Harris County).   

Our panel will talk about the trailblazing efforts of these women and their substantial work for suffrage

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