F. Josephine Stevenson

F. Josephine Stevenson was an early 20th-century female attorney and state chairman of Uniform Laws of the National League of Women Voters (1920–1921).

Early life F. Josephine Stevenson was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, daughter of Walter R. Stevenson and Mary E. Hunt. The Legal Lights, a women's law organization at USC, was founded in 1911. It became Phi Delta Delta (merged into Phi Alpha Delta in 1972), the first women’s law sorority in the U.S. In 1918, two of USC's five post-graduate law students were women, with Stevenson one of the two.

Career Stevenson was admitted to the Bar in 1918; she was an attorney-at-law and specialized in probate work.

Personal life Stevenson moved to California in 1894. In 1922, she lived at 43 North El Molino Avenue and in 1928 at 3817 E. California St., Pasadena, California.