F. Josephine Stevenson

F. Josephine Stevenson was an early 20th-century female attorney and State Chairman of Uniform Laws of the National League of Women Voters (1920–21) Early life F. Josephine Stevenson was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, daughter of Walter R. Stevenson and Mary E. Hunt. She attended Oil City High School and then the College of Law, University of Southern California, graduating in June 1918. The Legal Lights, a women’s law organization at USC, was founded in 1911. It became Phi Delta Delta (merged to Phi Alpha Delta in 1972), the first women’s law sorority in the U.S. In 1918 two of USC’s five post-graduate law students were women, F. Josephine Stevenson one of the two. Career F. Josephine Stevenson was admitted to the Bar in 1918; she was an attorney-at-law and specialized in probate work. Stevenson served one year as president of the Women Lawyers' Club, and four years as corresponding secretary.