She also was a member of the Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs and the Chicago Council of Social Agencies.
She was admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court on Jan. She served as a courtroom reporter for 15 years before attending Chicago Law School, graduating in 1920.Īnderson established a practice and was one of the first women in Illinois to have a private law practice.ĭue to her success defending a woman accused of murdering her husband, in 1922, she was appointed assistant prosecutor in Chicago, the first woman and African-American appointed to that post. After high school, she attended the Chicago Athenaeum and the Chicago Seminar of Sciences. She was born in London, England, on July 16, 1882, to Richard and Marie Neatley, who immigrated to America and settled in Chicago when Anderson was a young child. Among these notable citizens was Violette Neatley Anderson, who became the first African-American female attorney admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 1926. With the settlement of Idlewild in Lake County in 1912 as an African-American resort community, many prominent African-American individuals owned property there throughout the decades following.
A woman connected with Idlewild made her mark on the world.
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