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Subhead: The first woman named to the Minnesota Supreme Court, Wahl decided in her 30s to pursue law after she grew tired of "sitting outside of doors, with the doors shut, and them [men] deciding," says Lori Sturdevant in this excerpt from "Her Honor." Byline: Lori SturdevantRosalie Wahl being sworn in as Minnesota's first female Supreme Court justice in 1977.
Credit: Wahl Papers, Minnesota Historical Society
(WOMENSENEWS)--In later years, Rosalie Wahl frequently described the feminist epiphany that came to her while sitting in frustration outside a closed meeting of the all-male Washington County Board in Stillwater, Minn. The year was 1960, give or take a few months, and the issue was libraries.
