Sybil Ursula Ward (June 24, 1894 – March 31, 1977) was one of the first female

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s in

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. Ward was born on June 24, 1894, in

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. She was born into a family of lawyers, as her father Herbert H. Ward was an attorney. She had attended the

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in Massachusetts and completed her legal education at the

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. In 1923, she and

Evangelyn Barsky Evangelyn Barsky (March 31, 1894 – September 13, 1936) was, along with Sybil Ward, one of the first two women lawyers regularly admitted to practice in Delaware. Biography Barsky was born on March 31, 1894, in Wilmington, Delaware, to Natha ...

were the first women admitted to practice law in Delaware. Ward then practiced with her father at the law firm Ward & Gray. She would go on to become the first female to serve on the Wilmington City Council. She died on March 31, 1977, in Wilmington.

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