LWC History

The University of Washington School of Law is one of the few Law Schools where women have been a part of every class and there have been some phenomenal women at the law school. This page of the LWC website is the start of project to gather information on the stories of the women of law school.

The first law school class contained three rather extraordinary women.

Othlia "Tele" Gertude Carroll Beals may have been the first woman judge in Washington, serving as a Justice of the Peace during WWI . Her husband and classmate, Walter Beals was a member of the Washington Supreme Court and later one of the American judges Presiding over the Doctors Trial of the Military Tribunal of Nazi Tribunal of Nuremberg.
Beatrice Rosenbloom (or Rosenboum) Wernitcova – Jewish – A little article published in NY – Granddaughter in Kane College in NJ- Biography of her
Adelle Parker – didn’t practice law at all – ardanent suffragette published in papers etc.
(Also two African Americans and a Japanese immigrant – in the first case – guy in statute on the second floor) Admitted to bar after he died
Also noteworthy is that the first class also included two African Americans and a Japanese immigrant who was admitted to bar after he died

There have also been many other fabulous women at the Law School:

The first female US Supreme Court Clerk was UW alumna Lucile Lomen

LWC Alumnae Honoress:

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