Clinton County IA Archives Biographies.....Foster, Judith Ellen 
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Source: History of Clinton County, Iowa
Author: Estelle Youle

Judith Ellen Foster-

The first woman lawyer to practice in the State of Iowa was Judith Ellen 
Foster, who came to Clinton in 1869 with her husband, C. E. Foster. She began 
the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1872. Very early in her career 
she became interested in the Woman’s Temperance Union and was one of the 
militant trail makers. Because of her zeal for people on the under side she 
was appointed an inspector of conditions under which women and children worked 
and at one time was sent to Russia to study conditions there. She died in 
1910, one of the best known women campaigners in the world. 

–Estelle Goodwin LePrevost Youle, History of Clinton County, Iowa, 1948.


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