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Distinguished Women of Past and Present
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Belva Ann Lockwood
Lockwood, Belva Ann, née BENNETT (1830-1917), American lawyer, reformer, and women's rights advocate. Lockwood was born in Royalton, New York, and educated at Genessee College, Lima, New York, and National University, Washington, D.C. She was admitted to the bar in Washington, D.C., in 1873. In 1879 she drafted the law, passed by Congress in that year, which admitted women to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, and became the first woman lawyer to practice before the Court. She was successful in securing congressional enactment of a bill providing for the payment to female federal employees of wages equal to those paid male employees. In 1884 and in 1888 Lockwood was the candidate of the Equal Rights party for the presidency of the U.S. She was the author of the congressional enactment in 1903, granting suffrage to women in Oklahoma, Arizona, and New Mexico. The most important case in which she participated was that brought against the United States by the Cherokee people for damages resulting from encroachments on their territory. Partly through her efforts, the Cherokee, in 1906, were awarded damages totaling $5 million.
"Lockwood, Belva Ann" Microsoft(R) Encarta.
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