Mary Campbell Johnson was one of the first three females to practice law in
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Johnson was born around 1880 in
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. She was married to Minton Rollingsworth Johnson, who worked as a customs collector at the port of Brunswick. They both studied law together and Johnson's husband was admitted to practice law in 1915. Since women were not permitted to take the examinations, Johnson had to wait until a legislative act was passed in order to give women that right.
Once the law changed, Johnson passed her examination, and was admitted to practice law in Georgia in 1916. Johnson was the third woman, as she was preceded by
Minnie Anderson Hale and
Betty Reynolds Cobb
Betty Reynolds Cobb (October 23, 1884 – May 27, 1956) was an attorney, author, and activist.
She was one of the first women accepted to the Bar association, bar, and one of the first female lawyers in Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. In 1916, Mi ...
respectively that same year.
See also
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List of first women lawyers and judges in Georgia
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming ...
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