Esther Hobart Morris: The Unembellished Story of the Nation's First Female Judge

All women today reap the benefit of that winter day in 1870 when Esther Hobart Morris gathered her courage and walked down the South Pass City street to the saloon where she applied to be justice of the peace. She became the first woman judge in the nation and the face of the Woman Suffrage movement in the United States. She struck the first resounding crack into the glass ceiling that for centuries had been “keeping women in their place” by denying them the right to hold public office and to...