Jackson County IA Archives News.....First Women Drawn For Jury Duty December 14, 1920 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/iafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ken Wright wright@prestontel.com February 2, 2011, 11:53 am Maquoketa Excelsior-Record December 14, 1920 Maquoketa Excelsior-Record, December 14, 1920 FIRST WOMEN DRAWN FOR JURY DUTY First Drawing Since Women Suffrage The new order of things is getting started over at the court house and women voters are being drawn for the jury service, along with the men. The names of the voters of Jackson County were placed in the box for drawing last month and this means the names of the men and women alike. Saturday, those in authority made the drawing and the result was that two ladies were drawn on the petit jury, but none succeeded in alighting on the grand jury. The two ladies who were fortunate-or rather unfortunate-enough to be drawn for jury service are Mrs. A. H. Moravec of Fulton and Mrs. Edith Francois of this city. This is going to revolutionize to a certain degree the jury work, and we’re guessing the ladies will be a splendid addition to capabilities shown in deciding on cases coming before them. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ia/jackson/newspapers/firstwom86gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/iafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb