American equal rights activist and lawyer Belva Ann Bennett
Lockwood (24th October, 1830 - 19th May, 1917) was the first woman
to be granted the right to argue cases before the US Supreme Court.
Lockwood was one of the first female lawyers in the United States,
and in the 1870s she repeatedly petitioned Congress for the same
right to practice as male lawyers. In 1879 President Rutherford B.
Hayes (4th October, 1822 - 17th January 1893) signed a law allowing
all qualified women lawyers to practice in any federal court.
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