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Rachel Emma Allen Berry (1859-1948)

Close on the heels of Arizona women’s step into the political arena, Berry jumped in with both feet. She became one of the first women in the U.S. to be elected to a state legislature. She joined Arizona’s House of Representatives on January 11, 1915. She worked tirelessly for bills regarding education and child welfare.

Lorna Lockwood (1903-1977)

The education of most women in the early 1900s didn’t go past high school. Lockwood not only went to the University of Arizona in Tucson but also the College of Law. According to Arizona Women’s Hall of Fame, she was the only woman in a class of 13 law students. Certainly job opportunities were slim for women, and she spent many years as a legal stenographer, but she formed the state’s first all-woman legal practice with another female attorney. She was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives, and assistant attorney general. Eventually, she became the first female chief justice in the nation.

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