1. Mary O'Toole was the first woman municipal judge of the United States.
19 Facts About Mary O'Toole
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Mary O'Toole's father Nicholas was imprisoned in Naas Gaol in 1882 because he was a follower of Charles Stewart Parnell's no-rents campaign.
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Mary O'Toole was the first woman to be naturalised in Steuben County, New York, in 1900, and afterwards became the first woman to be appointed official stenographer in Steuben County.
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Mary O'Toole studied at Washington College of Law, completing her Bachelor of Laws in 1908, and Master of Laws in 1914.
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Mary O'Toole was a member of the Phi Delta Delta women's legal fraternity.
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Mary O'Toole was re-appointed to the Municipal Court by President Coolidge in 1925.
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Mary O'Toole was a member of the board of trustees of the Washington College of Law, and held the position of Acting Dean of the College while Dean Grace Hays Riley attended the American Legion Convention in Paris in September 1927.
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Mary O'Toole was reappointed to the Municipal Court by President Hoover in 1929.
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In 1930, Mary O'Toole was named one of the 50 women who had done the most for Washington by The Washington Post.
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Mary O'Toole spoke at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the National Association of Women Lawyers on 5 August 1936.
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Mary O'Toole was a member of the Phi Delta Delta Women's Legal Fraternity and the District of Columbia Women's Bar Association.
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In September 1929, The Washington Daily News reported that Mary O'Toole was "one of the most ardent anti-capital punishment workers in the District [of Columbia]".
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Mary O'Toole led a successful campaign to have the Washington Chamber of Commerce go on record as opposing capital punishment.
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Mary O'Toole was quoted in the interview as saying, "A woman seeks divorce for one of three main reasons: To protect herself from a person no longer tolerable; to be free, perhaps to acquire other bonds; or to free her husband, her economic independence lulling the fear of want and poverty, so large a factor in the life of women of an earlier day".
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Mary O'Toole was the president of the District of Columbia State Equal Suffrage Association, a member of the Executive Council of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and a member of The League of Women Voters.
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Mary O'Toole campaigned for women's suffrage and voting rights for citizens of the District of Columbia.
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Mary O'Toole was the first president of the Women's City Club of Washington, DC which was founded in 1919.
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Mary O'Toole was the first woman to be chosen as director of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, and was a director in the Citizens Savings Bank of Washington, DC.
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Mary O'Toole had membership with the Sulgrave Institution, the Columbia Historical Society, the Catholic Actors Guild, the American Catholic History Association, the American Association of University Women, the Women's National Republican Club, the League of Republican Women of the District, and the American Legion Auxiliary.