Florence King (patent attorney)

This article is about the patent attorney. For the writer, see Florence King.

Florence King (1870–1924) was the first female patent attorney in America.[1] She earned a B.A. from Mount Morris College in 1891 and a law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1895.[2] She became the first woman registered to practice before the U.S. Patent Office in 1897, became the first woman to argue a patent case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1922, and became the first woman to win a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1923 (Crown v. Nye).[2][3]

She also worked as a consulting engineer in machine design and construction, having attended Armour Institute of Technology for three years.[4]

She founded and served as president of the Women's Association of Commerce of Chicago and the Woman's Association of Commerce of the United States.[5] She also organized the Woman's Alaska Gold Club.[2]

She died of breast cancer.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Manchester University Archives and Brethren Historical Collection". Manchester.edu. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
  2. 1 2 3 "Biographical Search | Women's Legal History". Wlh.law.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
  3. 1 2 Sybil E. Hatch (1 January 2006). Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers. ASCE Publications. pp. 204–. ISBN 978-0-7844-0835-3.
  4. ↑ The American Contractor. F. W. Dodge Corporation. 1920. pp. 4–.
  5. ↑ The Business Philosopher: The Magazine of Practical Business Building. Science Press. 1918. pp. 10–.
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