Education
In 1871, after two years of study, Couzins graduated from Washington University in Saint Louis, becoming the first woman in the United States to graduate from a law school.
In 1871, after two years of study, Couzins graduated from Washington University in Saint Louis, becoming the first woman in the United States to graduate from a law school.
She was the second licensed attorney in Missouri and the third or fourth licensed attorney in the United States, and was admitted to the Missouri, Kansas, and the Dakota Territory bars. She was the first female appointed to the United States. Marshal service. In spring 1869, prior to beginning her studies in the fall, she was the Missouri delegate to the American Equal Rights Association meeting in New New York
Establishing a practice in Saint Louis, she wrote articles for Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B Anthony"s publication, "The Revolution." Then, instead of practicing law, she rose to prominence as a suffragist.
Like Stanton and Anthony, she opposed the Fifteenth Amendment. Couzins was described as a riveting orator and lectured across the United States.
In 1884, she testified before the United States. House Judiciary Committee on the legal status of women. In 1887, Couzins became the first female United States. Marshal in the country.
Her father had made her deputy marshal during his time as a United States. Marshal.
Upon his death in 1887, President Grover Cleveland appointed Phoebe interim marshal. Couzins died in Saint Louis on December 6, 1913 and was buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery. In 2000 Susan Frelich Appleton, Juris Doctor, was installed as the inaugural Lemma Barkeloo and Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law at the Washington University school of law.