Through her publication, the Chicago Legal News , she initiated many important legal and social reforms. They then moved to Shaumberg, Illinois, near Chicago.
She attended finishing school in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and completed her education at the Elgin Female Seminary. He came from a family of poor English immigrants, and was financing his education by doing manual labor, which led the Colby family to disapprove of their relationship.
Nevertheless, Myra Colby married James Bradwell on May 18, and moved with him to Memphis, Tennessee, where they opened their own private school, while James continued to study law.
They had four children, two of whom died at an early age. In the Bradwells returned to Illinois and settled in Chicago, where James was admitted to the bar in and established a successful law practice.
No law school in the Midwest would admit women at that time — the first was Washington University in St. Louis She cared for their children and home, and used her growing legal knowledge to help her husband in the office. In , James was elected as a Cook County judge.
When the Civil War began, she joined the Northwestern Sanitary Commission and was involved in planning a successful fund-raising fair in Chicago, which provided supplies and other support for Union soldiers and their widows and orphans. In the process she improved her organizational skills. Bradwell also became an active member of the Illinois Woman Suffrage Association. She exhorted state officials of both parties to end discrimination against women in employment.
The News also provided editorial support to women around the country seeking to obtain law licenses in their own states. While James Bradwell served in the Illinois state legislature, Myra often drafted legislation that he ushered into law, including a statute that gave all people, men and women, the right to practice any profession.
Some of the bills she drafted gave women the right to run for office in the Illinois public school system, to become notaries public, and gave women equal rights to the custody of their children in case of divorce. The Chicago Legal News served as her mouthpiece during this process. Each week she published the opinions in recent state and federal court cases and other legal information.
It eventually became popular throughout the country, and was the most widely read legal paper in the United States, with Bradwell serving as publisher, editor and business manager.
She refused to accept the narrow social role society allowed women. Bradwell's interest in the legal field expanded when she founded and became the first woman to edit a nationally circulated legal publication, the Chicago Legal News , in To fulfill her role as editor-in-chief and publisher, she had to obtain a special charter from the Illinois legislature allowing her to own and operate a business as a married woman.
Under the charter—and contrary to generally applicable law at the time—she was allowed to enter into contracts without involving her husband and could keep her earnings.
In , Bradwell became the first woman to pass the Illinois bar exam, but the Illinois Supreme Court denied her a license to practice because she was married. She brought her case to the Supreme Court of the United States. In Bradwell v. In an decision, the Court disagreed. Justice Samuel F. She was instrumental in the consideration of extending the vote to women in the state constitution in Illinois. In , the paper's offices and printing plant were destroyed in the Chicago Fire.
Myra Bradwell was able to get the paper published in time by using facilities in Milwaukee. The Illinois legislature granted the printing company the contract to republish official records lost in the fire. Before Bradwell v. Illinois was decided, Myra Bradwell and another woman whose application had also been denied by the Illinois Supreme Court joined forces in drafting a stature to allow both men and women admission into any profession or occupation.
Before the U. Supreme Court's decision, Illinois had opened up the legal profession to women. But Myra Blackwell did not submit a new application.
Myra's work helped win Mrs. Lincoln's release. In , in recognition of her role as a civic leader, Myra Bradwell was one of Illinois' representatives to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. In , Bradwell's daughter graduated from law school and became a lawyer. In , when the Illinois Woman's Press Association was founded, the first women writers elected Myra Bradwell its president. She did not accept that office, but she did join the group and is counted among the founders.
Frances Willard and Sarah Hackett Stevenson were also among those who joined in the first year. In , Chicago was selected as the site for the World's Columbian Exposition, with Myra Bradwell being one of the key lobbyists winning that selection. In , Myra Bradwell was finally admitted to the Illinois bar, on the basis of her original application.
In , the United States Supreme Court granted her a license to practice before that court. In , Myra Bradwell was already suffering from cancer, but was one of the lady managers for the World's Columbian Exposition, and chaired the committee on law reform at one of the congresses held in conjunction with the exposition.
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