1869-02-08 00:00:00

Nevada legislature approves womens right to vote

Curtis H. Hillyer introduce a bill that wold allow women the right to vote. The bill was pass in 1869, but two years later the required second vote in the next legislative session failed.

1889-01-01 00:00:00

Election for women to become school superintendets

Nevada's constitution allow women to be elected to school trustees and superintendents.

1893-07-13 00:00:00

Women allowed to practice law

Laura Tilden became the first woman to pass the bar exam.

1902-07-17 00:00:00

Native American women admitted to Nevada Bar

Felice Cohn was the first native-born woman to join the bar

1906-01-01 00:00:00

Delphine Squires founds the Mesqute Club.

Squires was one of the founding members of the Mesquite Club.

1910-01-01 00:00:00

Nevada Equal Franchise Society was established

Organization established with the aid of Professor Jeanne Weir.

1911-01-01 00:00:00

Anne Martin returns to Reno, NV

Martin led the Nevada Equal Franchise.

1911-01-01 00:00:00

Mesquite Club moves to Las Vegas

Social club committed to improving the young city. Argued the women votes should be achieve in a diplomatically.

1911-03-18 00:00:00

First step to grant women right to vote

Resolution to amend the state constitution to allow women in the state of Nevada the right to vote passed the legislature.

1911-07-17 00:00:00

Felice Cohn writes the suffrage resolution

This resolution passed the legislature in 1911.

1912-01-01 00:00:00

Anne Martin organized campaing to win votes

Led the NEFS (Nevada Equal Franchise Society) county to county to win popularity votes. This votes won women’s suffrage.

1913-01-01 00:00:00

Bird Wilso wrote "Women Under Nevada Law"

This pamphlet educated women's about the law and women suffrage. 20,000 copies were distributed.

1914-11-03 00:00:00

Nevada allowes women the right to vote

1915-01-01 00:00:00

Women vote for the first time in local races

1916-06-02 22:18:09

Helen J. Stewart First woman on school board

First woman elected to public office in Clark County

1916-11-01 17:19:21

First woman elected to state office

Edna Catlin Baker elected to a two-year term on the Board of Regents.

1920-08-18 00:00:00

Women gained the right to vote nationally

The nineteenth amendment is ratified guarantees all American women the right to vote.

1920-11-01 00:00:00

Anne Martin second runs for Senate

1920-11-01 00:00:00

WWII Womanpower Campaign

The U.S. government encouraged women's employment, in an effort to get more women into the industrial workforce during the war. Magnesium Inc. in Henderson Nevada employed women in many areas of the factory.

1926-01-01 00:00:00

Felice Cohn appointed a Hearings Attorney for the U.S. Land Office

1943-11-01 00:00:00

Lubertha Johnson arrives in Las Vegas

1945-11-01 00:00:00

Lubertha Johnson became part of the NAACP

She accomplished the signing of the Consent Decree. The decree end employment discrimination, and it started the fighting for Nevada’s civil rights law.

1946-01-27 00:00:00

Bird Wison Dies

1947-11-01 00:00:00

Emilie Wanderer first women to open her own law practice in Las Vegas

1951-04-15 00:00:00

Anne Martin dies

Anne Martin dies in Carmel, California.

1964-04-29 12:14:15

League of Women Voters formed for Las Vegas Valley

Organization founded to watch over the activities of government and to affect public policy by reaching out to inform and advocate to citizens.

1965-04-29 12:14:15

Nevada Civil Rights Act

The act is pass, but Nevada does not move to end sex discrimination.

1965-09-09 00:00:00

Myram Borders hired as UPI bureau manager in Las Vegas

first women bureau manager for a wire service in the Western United State.

1972-09-09 00:00:00

Equality with Title IX

This act was needed to prohibit sex discrimination in school from kindegarten through graduate school.

1975-09-09 00:00:00

first woman on Clark County Commission

Thalia Dondero he served until 1994.

1980-09-09 00:00:00

Nevada Bar admits the First African American women

Viveca Monet Woods and Judge Johnnie Rawlinson were admitted to the bar.

1982-08-27 00:00:00

First woman U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District of Nevada

Phyllis Halsey Atkins becomes first to serve on a federal bench.

1982-09-09 00:00:00

First woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Nevada

Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich represent Nevada's Second Congressional District.

1983-08-18 00:00:00

First woman elected to a state constitutional office

Patty D. Cafferata won Nevada Treasurer.

1987-09-09 00:00:00

First Woman to be elected secretary of State

Frankie Sue Del Papa, Secretary of State.

1989-08-02 00:00:00

Valorie Vega first female Hispanic lawye

She was appointed to the Las Vegas Municipal Court and subsequently elected.

1991-08-18 00:00:00

Jan Jones elected Mayor of Las Vegas

1998-05-02 00:00:00

Johnnie Rawlinson appointed as U.S. District Court Judge

Fist woman lawyer and African American woman.

1998-08-18 00:00:00

Liliam Lujan Hickey first Latina elected to the Nevada Board of Education

1999-08-02 00:00:00

Kay Kindred, first African-American Woman Law Professor & Associate Dean in Nevada.

2013-06-10 00:00:00

Barbara Vucanovich Dies

Barbara died in hospice today in Reno after a brief illness.