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Lavinia Goodell becomes Wisconsin’s first woman lawyer
Lavinia Goodell

Goodell is admitted to the Rock County Circuit Court and becomes Wisconsin's first woman lawyer. That same year she becomes the first woman to try a case to a judge and, a few weeks later, to a jury. She prevails in both.