Rosa Gerhardt | |
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Born | March 29, 1898 |
Died | January 5, 1975 | (aged 76)
Education | Cumberland School of Law |
Occupation | Attorney |
Rosa Gerhardt (March 29, 1898 – January 5, 1975) was an American attorney from Mobile, Alabama, where she served as president of the Mobile Bar Association, the first woman in Alabama to hold the position at a local or state bar association. [1] [2]
Gerhardt was born on March 29, 1898, in Camden, Alabama, the fourth of nine children of Marcus and Esther Gerhardt. [1] The family moved to Mobile in 1914. Rosa graduated from Mobile High School the same year. [1]
Gerhardt taught at Dauphin Island Elementary School before moving to Washington, D.C., where she worked during World War I, before moving back to Mobile to work as a legal assistant to Gregory L. Smith. [1] After working for Smith for nine years, after he died, she enrolled at Cumberland University's law school in Lebanon, Tennessee, and graduated with honors in June 1930. [1] She passed the Alabama Bar Examination, becoming the second female attorney in Mobile. [1]
In 1933, Gerhardt was a delegate to the Alabama convention to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. [3] She also was a member of the Mobile Business and Professional Women's Club, and served as club president in 1941. [1]
Rosa Gerhardt | |
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Born | March 29, 1898 |
Died | January 5, 1975 | (aged 76)
Education | Cumberland School of Law |
Occupation | Attorney |
Rosa Gerhardt (March 29, 1898 – January 5, 1975) was an American attorney from Mobile, Alabama, where she served as president of the Mobile Bar Association, the first woman in Alabama to hold the position at a local or state bar association. [1] [2]
Gerhardt was born on March 29, 1898, in Camden, Alabama, the fourth of nine children of Marcus and Esther Gerhardt. [1] The family moved to Mobile in 1914. Rosa graduated from Mobile High School the same year. [1]
Gerhardt taught at Dauphin Island Elementary School before moving to Washington, D.C., where she worked during World War I, before moving back to Mobile to work as a legal assistant to Gregory L. Smith. [1] After working for Smith for nine years, after he died, she enrolled at Cumberland University's law school in Lebanon, Tennessee, and graduated with honors in June 1930. [1] She passed the Alabama Bar Examination, becoming the second female attorney in Mobile. [1]
In 1933, Gerhardt was a delegate to the Alabama convention to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. [3] She also was a member of the Mobile Business and Professional Women's Club, and served as club president in 1941. [1]