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The Fallen Vivian Simpson
The Fallen Vivian Simpson | Vivian Simpson |
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As a student, Vivian Simpson challenged gender discrimination and
sexual harassement at the University of Maryland in the 1920's. She was
eventually thrown out of school after a lengthy court battle.
She enrolled at George Washington University and went on to become a
successful lawyer in Montgomery County. Vivian Simpson's career spanned
fifty years, during which time she repeatedly broke barriers for women,
earning appointments as the first woman attorney for the Board of
Montgomery County Commissioners in 1938, the first woman ever to serve
on the Maryland Industrial Accident Commission (now the Workers
Compensation Commission) 1940-47, the first woman Secretary of State
for Maryland in 1949, and the first woman ever to be elected President
of the Montgomery County Bar Association in 1949. She died in 1987. |
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