The efforts to admit women to the practice of law in Georgia began in 1911 when Minnie Anderson Hall , who had graduated from the Atlanta Law School, was denied admission to practice by the Superior Court. At that time, the law required an applicant for admission to practice law to be a male citizen. After the Superior Court's denial of her application, Hale helped introduce a bill in the Georgia General Assembly to strike the word "male" from the law. Although hotly debated, the bill was defeated. Thereafter, Minnie Hale appeared annually before the judiciary committee of the legislature to urge passage of a bill. Minnie Hale was supported by another woman graduate of Atlanta Law School, Georgia McIntire-Weaver, Clark Howell, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, and as time passed some eminent attorneys and judges. Ms. Hale also sought her admission in a lawsuit, arguing that she was not subject to the particular Section of the Georgia code which required an applicant to be a male citizen. On June 14, 1916, the Georgia Supreme Court rejected her argument. Despite this defeat, two months later the act to permit females to practice law finally passed the legislature.

In 1920, there were only twenty-five women who were members of the Georgia Bar. Therefore, it was quite noteworthy, that ........

http://womenslegalhistory.stanford.edu/papers/betty.htm Title - Betty Reynolds Cobb: Pioneer Lady Lawyer of Georgia by Laura A. Menninger, Chapter11. Women in the Law in Georgia, Women's Legal History, Spring 1997.