Alice G. McGee

Alice G. McGee (1869–1895) was a lawyer included in A Woman of the Century and the second woman admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar, She was born in Warren, Pennsylvania and graduated from Warren High School in 1886. a prominent firm that had argued two cases in front of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court only a few years earlier.

On May 13, 1890, after McGee turned twenty-one, she was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar by Judge Brown. McGee, on the other hand, only worked as a student lawyer for three years and did not attend law school before gaining admission. Although law school was an option in 1890, law school was not required, and many were reluctant to admit women.

As a lawyer and actor Although McGee was a successful counselor and pleader, she found the practice of law slow and unprofitable, so she started an acting career, appearing in "The Queen of Sheba" in 1893–1894. She died at the age of twenty-six in 1895.