Alabama NewsCenter — Maud McLure Kelly, Alabama’s first female lawyer, continues to inspire

By Mark Kelly
Alabama NewsCenter

In 1904, a lawyer named Richard B. Kelly moved his family from Anniston to Birmingham. His daughter, Maud, a recent high school graduate, became his stenographer. Soon, she became fascinated with law and began studying it on her own. Though the idea of a female lawyer was unheard of in the Alabama of that day, Maud McLure Kelly decided that is exactly what she wanted to become.

Admission to the University of Alabama School of Law was opened to women in the late 1890s, but when Kelly applied and was accepted in 1907, she was only its second female student. Her immersion in her father’s law books paid off immediately, as she scored so highly on the entrance exam that she was admitted as a senior, obtaining her law degree in one year and graduating with honors.

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