Mattie Belle Davis

Mattie Belle Davis (1910-2004) was a judge and the first woman from Florida elected to the American Bar Foundation and the second woman to be elected in the US.

She was born in Ellabell, Georgia and her family moved to Miami, Florida in 1926. She was admitted to the Florida bar in 1939. This was the era when women could not sit on juries in Florida. They were unable to do so until 1947. She was the first woman judge of Metropolitan Court of Dade County, Florida. She was judge of that court from 1959-65. She and her husband Troy Davis went into practice and continued until his death in 1948.

March 3 is "Mattie Belle Davis day" in Dade County, an honor she was presented with in 1987. She was instrumental in forming the Florida Association of Women Lawyers. She was the association's president 1957-58. The Florida Association of Women Lawyers Society established the Mattie Belle Davis award in 2004 in honor of her for outstanding women lawyers. She died in 2004 at the age 0f 93.

External links

• http://www.fcsw.net/halloffame/WHOFbios/mattie_belle_davis.htm
• http://www.fawl.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=78
• http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00400
• http://digitool.fcla.edu/dtl_publish/46/10752.html]
• http://www.nawl.org/About_Us/History/Complete_History.htm

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Name	Davis, Mattie Belle
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Date of birth	1910
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Date of death	2004
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