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Headshot of Shirley Abrahamson
Justice Abrahamson teaching
Justice on Wheels
1874
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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.