Sybil Ward
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Sybil Ward | |
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| Born | June 24, 1894 |
| Died | March 31, 1977 (aged 82) Wilmington |
| Occupation | lawyer |
Sybil Ursula Ward (June 24, 1894 – March 31, 1977) was one of the first female lawyers in Delaware.[1]
Ward was born on June 24, 1894, in Wilmington, Delaware. She was born into a family of lawyers, as her father Herbert H. Ward was an attorney.[2] She had attended the Wheaton College in Massachusetts and completed her legal education at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[3][4] In 1923, she and Evangelyn Barsky were the first women admitted to practice law in Delaware. Ward then practiced with her father at the law firm Ward & Gray.[5][6] She would go on to become the first female to serve on the Wilmington City Council.
She died on March 31, 1977, in Wilmington.[4][7]
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Categories:
- University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni
- Wheaton College (Massachusetts) alumni
- 1894 births
- 1977 deaths
- Lawyers from Wilmington, Delaware
- Delaware city council members
- Women city councillors in Delaware
- 20th-century American lawyers
- 20th-century American women politicians
- 20th-century American women lawyers
- 20th-century Delaware politicians