Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
In 1879, after the Supreme Court turned her away on the reasoning that “none but men” were permitted to practice before it, which attorney lobbied Congress into passing “An Act to relieve certain legal disabilities of women” — and then, on March 3 of that year, became the first woman admitted to the Supreme Court bar?
Hint: She wasn’t finished: a year later, she argued Kaiser v. Stickney, becoming the first woman to argue a case before the Court.
See the answer on the next page.