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Ellen Spencer Mussey and Emma M. Gillett hold the first Woman's Law Class, using Mussey's law office as a classroom. In April 1898, The District of Columbia incorporates WCL. It is the first law school in the world founded by women - and the first one with a female dean. The school begins as a parttime evening school for whites only. Mussey becomes the first woman dean of a law school in the United States.

Ellen Spencer Mussey and Emma M. Gillett hold the first Woman's Law Class, using Mussey's law office as a classroom. In April 1898, The District of Columbia incorporates WCL. It is the first law school in the world founded by women - and the first one with a female dean. The school begins as a parttime evening school for whites only. Mussey becomes the first woman dean of a law school in the United States.

Ellen Spencer Mussey and Emma M. Gillett hold the first Woman's Law Class, using Mussey's law office as a classroom. In April 1898, The District of Columbia incorporates WCL. It is the first law school in the world founded by women - and the first one with a female dean. The school begins as a parttime evening school for whites only. Mussey becomes the first woman dean of a law school in the United States.

Ellen Spencer Mussey and Emma M. Gillett hold the first Woman's Law Class, using Mussey's law office as a classroom. In April 1898, The District of Columbia incorporates WCL. It is the first law school in the world founded by women - and the first one with a female dean. The school begins as a parttime evening school for whites only. Mussey becomes the first woman dean of a law school in the United States.

Ellen Spencer Mussey and Emma M. Gillett hold the first Woman's Law Class, using Mussey's law office as a classroom. In April 1898, The District of Columbia incorporates WCL. It is the first law school in the world founded by women - and the first one with a female dean. The school begins as a parttime evening school for whites only. Mussey becomes the first woman dean of a law school in the United States.

Ellen Spencer Mussey and Emma M. Gillett hold the first Woman's Law Class, using Mussey's law office as a classroom. In April 1898, The District of Columbia incorporates WCL. It is the first law school in the world founded by women - and the first one with a female dean. The school begins as a parttime evening school for whites only. Mussey becomes the first woman dean of a law school in the United States.

Ellen Spencer Mussey and Emma M. Gillett hold the first Woman's Law Class, using Mussey's law office as a classroom. In April 1898, The District of Columbia incorporates WCL. It is the first law school in the world founded by women - and the first one with a female dean. The school begins as a parttime evening school for whites only. Mussey becomes the first woman dean of a law school in the United States.

Ellen Spencer Mussey and Emma M. Gillett hold the first Woman's Law Class, using Mussey's law office as a classroom. In April 1898, The District of Columbia incorporates WCL. It is the first law school in the world founded by women - and the first one with a female dean. The school begins as a parttime evening school for whites only. Mussey becomes the first woman dean of a law school in the United States.

Ellen Spencer Mussey and Emma M. Gillett hold the first Woman's Law Class, using Mussey's law office as a classroom. In April 1898, The District of Columbia incorporates WCL. It is the first law school in the world founded by women - and the first one with a female dean. The school begins as a parttime evening school for whites only. Mussey becomes the first woman dean of a law school in the United States.

Ellen Spencer Mussey and Emma M. Gillett hold the first Woman's Law Class, using Mussey's law office as a classroom. In April 1898, The District of Columbia incorporates WCL. It is the first law school in the world founded by women - and the first one with a female dean. The school begins as a parttime evening school for whites only. Mussey becomes the first woman dean of a law school in the United States.

Ellen Spencer Mussey and Emma M. Gillett hold the first Woman's Law Class, using Mussey's law office as a classroom. In April 1898, The District of Columbia incorporates WCL. It is the first law school in the world founded by women - and the first one with a female dean. The school begins as a parttime evening school for whites only. Mussey becomes the first woman dean of a law school in the United States.