{"id":162677,"date":"2026-09-11T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/11\/she-earned-the-first-law-degree-ever-given-to-an-american-woman-and-she-wasnt-allowed-to-use-it\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:31:08","slug":"she-earned-the-first-law-degree-ever-given-to-an-american-woman-and-she-wasnt-allowed-to-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/11\/she-earned-the-first-law-degree-ever-given-to-an-american-woman-and-she-wasnt-allowed-to-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"She Earned The First Law Degree Ever Given To An American Woman And She Wasn\u2019t Allowed To Use It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who was the first woman in the United States to graduate from law school, earning her degree with honors from the institution we now know as Northwestern in 1870?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: When she tried to put it to use, her home state refused to license her \u2014 for the sole reason that she was a woman. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/she-earned-the-first-law-degree-ever-given-to-an-american-woman-and-she-wasnt-allowed-to-use-it\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">She Earned The First Law Degree Ever Given To An American Woman And She Wasn\u2019t Allowed To Use It<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-1005900492-300x212.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who was the first woman in the United States to graduate from law school, earning her degree with honors from the institution we now know as Northwestern in 1870?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: When she tried to put it to use, her home state refused to license her \u2014 for the sole reason that she was a woman. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/she-earned-the-first-law-degree-ever-given-to-an-american-woman-and-she-wasnt-allowed-to-use-it\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/she-earned-the-first-law-degree-ever-given-to-an-american-woman-and-she-wasnt-allowed-to-use-it\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Who was the first woman in the United States to graduate from law school, earning her degree with honors from the institution we now know as Northwestern in 1870? Hint: When she tried to put it to use, her home state refused to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}