Rosa Gerhardt
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Rosa Gerhardt (March 29, 1898 – January 5, 1975) was an American attorney from Mobile, Alabama, where she served as president of the Mobile Bar Association, the first woman in Alabama to hold the position at a local or state bar association.{{Cite web|url=http://www.awhf.org/gerhardt.html|title=Rosa Gerhardt|website=Alabama Women's Hall of Fame|access-date=August 30, 2019}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Xwn2IaYcS8C&pg=PA174|title=Nancy Batson Crews: Alabama's First Lady of Flight|last=Rickman|first=Sarah Byrn|date=August 2, 2009|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=9780817355531|pages=174|language=en}}
Early life
Gerhardt was born on March 29, 1898, in Camden, Alabama, the fourth of nine children of Marcus and Esther Gerhardt. The family moved to Mobile in 1914. Rosa graduated from Mobile High School the same year.
Career
Gerhardt taught at Dauphin Island Elementary School before moving to Washington, D.C., where she worked during World War I, before moving back to Mobile to work as a legal assistant to Gregory L. Smith. After working for Smith for nine years, after he died, she enrolled at Cumberland University's law school in Lebanon, Tennessee, and graduated with honors in June 1930. She passed the Alabama Bar Examination, becoming the second female attorney in Mobile.
In 1933, Gerhardt was a delegate to the Alabama convention to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K5TABIlR0_sC&q=Gerhardt|title=Ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: State Convention Records and Laws|last=Brown|first=Everett Somerville|date=2003|publisher=The Lawbook Exchange|isbn=9781584772781|pages=12–19|language=en}} She also was a member of the Mobile Business and Professional Women's Club, and served as club president in 1941.
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Category:Lawyers from Mobile, Alabama
Category:20th-century American lawyers
Category:People from Camden, Alabama
Category:Cumberland School of Law alumni
Category:20th-century American women lawyers
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