The 1st Female Californian Law Student

Clara Shortridge Foltz

As published in the California Defender Spring 1985; Vol. 1, Issue 1
By Mortimer D. Schwartz, Susan L. Brandt and Patience Milrod
5. Id. at 10. Foltz later wrote that the reason given her to justify excluding women from the college was that “The rustle of the ladies’ garments would distract the attention of the young gentleman.” Foltz “was hardly able to appreciate their argument as a legal proposition.”

Source: Santa Barbara County

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