Minnie Anderson Hale

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Minnie Anderson Hale (later Minnie Hale Daniel) was an American lawyer. She was one of the first three female lawyers in Georgia and later served as vice-president of the Georgia Women Lawyers' Association. On June 9, 1911, she became the first woman to graduate from Atlanta Law School, and the first woman to graduate from a law school in Georgia. At that time she was not allowed to practice law. In 1916, Georgia passed the Portia Bill, An Act to Permit Females to Practice Law, signed by Governor Nathaniel Edwin Harris, and Hale was finally allowed to practice law in Georgia. She was the first of the three female lawyers admitted that year; Betty Reynolds Cobb and Mary C. Johnson were admitted the same year. In 1922, she was elected vice-president of the Georgia Women Lawyers' Association.