F. Josephine Stevenson
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F. Josephine Stevenson was an early 20th-century female attorney and State Chairman of Uniform Laws of the National League of Women Voters (1920–21)
F. Josephine Stevenson was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, daughter of Walter R. Stevenson and Mary E. Hunt.[1]
She attended Oil City High School and then the College of Law, University of Southern California, graduating in June 1918.[2] The Legal Lights, a women’s law organization at USC, was founded in 1911. It became Phi Delta Delta (merged to Phi Alpha Delta in 1972), the first women’s law sorority in the U.S. In 1918 two of USC’s five post-graduate law students were women, F. Josephine Stevenson one of the two.[3]
