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Sep 4, 2020 · The decision to admit women to study at the University of Virginia School of Law had nothing to do with administrators’ belief in equality. Instead, their hand was forced by intense social pressure, which reached an apex after women became enfranchised in 1920.
In response, the legislature establishes a graduate school at Virginia State University, as well as a fund to supplement tuition for African Americans who have to go out of state. Jackson uses the money to earn a master’s from Columbia.
After graduating, Tompkins clerked for two years in Charlottesville before relocating to Richmond for a distinguished 54-year legal career. She was the first woman admitted to the Virginia State Bar. Since then, more than 6,000 women have enrolled and pursued their studies at UVA Law.
Aug 5, 2020 · After passing the bar in 1922 — the same year as Tompkins — Davis entered into law practice with her brother instead of returning for her final year of law school. She eventually earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Duke University and was the first woman to get her Ph.D. there. She later joined the legal department at DuPont. 1923.
The state of Virginia was reluctant to change their laws to allow women to attend the public military school and proposed the creation of a women’s program, the Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership (VWIL). U.S. v. Virginia, as the case became known, came before the Supreme Court in 1996.
By 1970, when the first officially co-ed class enrolled and 450 women arrived on Grounds to take their seats in UVA classes, over 30,000 women had already made their mark on UVA–pursuing, and earning, their diploma, certificate, or degree (bachelor’s, master’s, medical, law, and doctoral).
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David Barstow (born 1963) is an American journalist and professor. While a reporter at The New York Times from 1999 to 2019, Barstow was awarded, individually or jointly, four Pulitzer Prizes, becoming the first reporter in the history of the Pulitzers to be awarded this many.
