TEN WOMEN IN U.S. LEGAL HISTORY #2: Belva Ann Lockwood (October 24, 1830 – May 19, 1917) was an American attorney, politician, educator and author. Lockwood graduated from law school in Washington D.C. in 1873 and was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, becoming one of the first female attorneys in the United States. Despite being told by judges that they had no confidence in her, even being removed from the courtroom and being lectured and told that women were not equal to men, Lockwood built a practice and began to win cases. She drafted an anti-discrimination bill to allow women the same access to the bar as men and from 1874 to 1879, lobbied Congress to pass it. The law was finally passed in 1879, allowing all qualified female attorneys to practice in any federal court. Lockwood was sworn in as the first female member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar on March 3, 1879 and, in late 1880, became the first woman attorney to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Lockwood ran for President in 1884 and 1888 as a member of the National Equal Rights Party and was the first woman to appear on official voting ballots. Practicing law for 43 years, Lockwood died in 1917 and is buried in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.