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- Lucy_Somerville_Howorth abstract "Lucy Somerville Howorth (July 1, 1895 – August 24, 1997) was an American lawyer, feminist and politician. On August 18, 1917, in the State Capitol gallery in Nashville, Tennessee, she witnessed the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution being ratified, giving women the right to vote. This inspired her lifelong fight for the civil rights of minorities and women. She is also known for her New Deal legislative efforts.Lucy Somerville Howorth was born on July 1, 1895 in Greenville, Mississippi. As the daughter of Nellie Nugent Somerville, nationally known as a temperance and woman suffrage leader and the first woman to serve in the Mississippi Legislature, she was raised in an 'enlightened' atmosphere of female equality, a rarity for 19th century Mississippi.Lucy Sommerville attended Randolph-Macon Women’s College, now Randolph College, in Lynchburg, Virginia (1912-1916) where she was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi Fraternity, Phi Gamma Mu International Honor Society and the Phi Beta Kappa Society . After completing her A.B. she continued her education at Columbia University as a graduate student in psychology and economics. While living in New York City, she would attend political rallies and meetings; she also regularly visited settlement houses and sweatshops where she first saw how bosses mistreated working women and minorities. These experiences sparked her lifelong interest in civil rights; she claimed she \"learned to be a whole human being.\"From 1920-1922 she returned to the south and enrolled in the Law School of University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi and graduated summa cum laude with a LL.B., being one of only two women in her class. While a law student at the University of Mississippi, she started a female basketball team, a writers group and a book review column.She moved to Cleveland, Mississippi to begin practicing law. She then moved her law practice to her hometown, Greenville, Mississippi where she married Joseph M. Howorth, a local lawyer. After five years of practicing law, she was appointed as a judge, and acquired the beloved name “Judge Lucy”. She was admitted to Mississippi state and federal courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, and all of the courts in the District of Columbia.As a Democrat, she served Mississippians as a Hinds County Representative and as a member of the Mississippi House of Representativesfrom 1932-1936. Appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lucy served on the Board of Veterans Appeals from July 1934 to April 1943. Lucy served on the War Claims Commission, 1949-1954, as associate general counsel, deputy general counsel, and general counsel.After leaving government work in 1954, she moved back to Cleveland, Mississippi where she practiced law with her husband. In 1961 John F. Kennedy appointed her to his Commission on the Status of Women. She regularly traveled the US and internationally to give speeches and serve on boards that protected and furthered civil rights. She retired from her law practice in 1980 at 85 years old.Lucy found time to co-edit her grandfather’s Civil War letters, which were published under the title, My Dear Nellie (1978). Her husband died in 1982 after 54 years of marriage. She died from heart failure in Cleveland, Mississippi on August 23, 1997, at the age of 102.In her lifetime Lucy was an esteemed member of many organizations including the National Association of Women Lawyers, Phi Delta Delta Legal Fraternity (founded 1911, merged with Phi Alpha Delta in 1972), the Professional Women’s Club, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She served as vice president of the American Association of University Women, and played a role in ending their segregational practices in the 1940s. She was member and chairman of the United Nations League of Lawyers, and she served as the chairman of the Cleveland Public Library Commission for ten years.The Lucy Somerville Howorth Collection is held at Delta State University and consists of some of her professional and non-professional works, personal correspondences, certificates, awards and other items of memorabilia, photos and artwork, and newspaper clippings, and a scrapbook she and her husband owned.The first biography of Lucy Somerville Howorth, published in 2006, is titled Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South and is by Dorothy S. Shawhan and Martha H. Swain.The Lucy Somerville Howorth Lecture Series is held at the University of Mississippi, and brings speakers on women's studies to the campus.".
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