Anita Alvarez, Class of 1986 A Chicago native, Anita Alvarez grew up in the Pilsen neighborhood and received her undergraduate degree from Loyola University of Chicago. After graduating from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1986, Alvarez...
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Jamie Freveletti, Class of 1985 Jamie Freveletti is a trial attorney, martial artist, runner, and author of several bestselling thrillers. After graduating from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1985, Freveletti lived in Geneva...
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Patricia Whitten, Class of 1974 Patricia Whitten began her career after graduating from Chicago-Kent College of Law as Assistant Attorney for Chicago Public Schools, where she served for six years. In 1981, she became the first female and...
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Ilana Diamond Rovner, Class of 1966 Born in Riga, Latvia, Ilana Diamond Rovner came to the United States in 1939 to escape the Nazi invasion. Rovner graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1960, studied law at King’s College, University of...
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Dr. Rowine Brown Truitt, Class of 1961 Dr. Rowine Brown Truitt was born in 1913 and grew up in Harvey, Illinois. She graduated from Stanford in 1933 and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. As one of only 7...
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Dolores Hanna, Class of 1952 A distinguished practitioner of trademark law, Dolores Hanna served on the International Trademark Association Board of Directors. In 1984, Hanna was elected the first female president of INTA. She was...
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Esther Rothstein, Class of 1949 Esther Rothstein was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1913. While she was employed as a legal secretary at the firm of McCarthy and Levin in Chicago in 1947, Rothstein was encouraged by Etha B. Fox to get...
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Katharine Dixon Agar, Class of 1941 Katharine Dixon Agar graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1941. She became an associate in the firm of Will, McDermitt and Emery. She became the first female income partner of the firm in 1961...
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Etha Beatrice Fox, Class of 1939 Etha Beatrice Fox was born in 1914. She was one of the few women to graduate from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1939. She was admitted to practice in the Illinois Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for...
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Helen Walter Munsert, Class of 1929 Helen Walter Munsert was born in Virginia in 1910. In 1929, she graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law, valedictorian in a class of over 100 students. She was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1935. As...
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Minna Schmidt, Class of 1924 Wilhelmine Friederike Moscherosch Schmidt was born in Sindelfingen, Germany in 1866. The first of 17 children, Schmidt became a seamstress, saving the money she earned for passage to America. She entered the...
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Sophia B. Boaz, Class of 1922 Sophia Bell Boaz graduated from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1911. She moved to Chicago where she lived in the Charles Sumner Settlement on 31 W. Lake Street. At the time, social workers would...
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Alice M. McClanahan, Class of 1914 Alice M. McClanahan was born in Chicago in 1892 to a Chicago attorney, and later Chicago-Kent College of Law faculty member, Archie A. McClanahan. As a child, McClanahan spent time in her father’s law...
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Alice Craig Edgerton, Class of 1910 Alice Marie Craig was born in Wisconsin in 1874, where she graduated from Carroll College and began her teaching career. She moved to Chicago after her marriage to Charles H. Edgerton, who passed away...
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Nettie Rothblum, Class of 1909 Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Nettie Rothblum attended high school in Boston before enrolling in Chicago-Kent College of Law. While a law student in 1908, Rothblum, along with eight female classmates...
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Bertha Duppler Baur, Class of 1908 Miss Bertha E. Duppler, born in Wisconsin circa 1875, came to Chicago at the age of 25 to work as a stenographer. By June of 1908, she had completed her studies at Chicago-Kent College of Law and was...
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Edna Covert Plummer, Class of 1907 On June 8, 1907, the Racine News reported that “Miss Covert became the leader of her class...a most brilliant and successful future is certain for the young lady.” Before her graduation from the...
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Esther Dunshee Bower, Class of 1902 Esther A. Dunshee was born in September of 1879 in the town of Wilmette, Illinois. In 1941, she reminisced that school had always been the best part of her life, which is why she continued in her...
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Belle Douglas, Class of 1895 Very little is known about Belle Douglas, the 1895 graduate of Chicago College of Law, who caused a stir when she won her very first case. One year after her graduation, she had her own practice at 79 Dearborn...
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Mary Eva Miller, Class of 1895 Born in Calhoun County, Michigan in 1865, Mary Eva Miller came to Chicago to become a stenographer in a law office. She attended evening classes at the Chicago College of Law and graduated in 1895, passing...
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Loise Foskette, Class of 1894 Louise Foskette was born in Palatine, Illinois in 1865. Before graduating from Chicago College of Law in 1890, a classmate of Ida Platt’s, Foskette spent eight years teaching in Chicago schools. She was...
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Ida Platt, Class of 1894 Born in Chicago in 1863, Ida Platt became the first African-American woman to earn an Illinois law license, and the first African-American woman to graduate from Chicago College of Law in 1894. Platt worked her way...
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Cora B. Hirtzel, Class of 1890 Cora B. Hirtzel was born in Ottawa, Illinois and came to Chicago in 1887 after studying law in the offices of Jackson & Thompson in Oakland, Wisconsin. She took a “regular course” at the Chicago College of...
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TASS Windows: A Collection of War Posters from the Telegraphic Agency of the Soviet Union
